The masking presentation of invested identity

 in response to the themes in:

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/02/putin-history-and-the-mystery-of-national-identity/

 

 

You note what Putin claims not to understand - why Ukraine was created as a masked impositional identity over competing regional traditional cultures.
This brings out the use or meaning of the term identity, what do we take identity from, but more deepy, what do we give identification to as 'real or true' for ourselves - at any current time or situation.
Invested identity is in effect contracted as a stakeholder in its terms and conditions.
Narratives compete to gain investment of emotional energy as claims or defences for specialness set in justifiction.
But as a theatre of war running covert to a surface perception of events for which they run covertly.

Social masking manipulation uses the contents of our heart & mind to frame or shape it to the design of others - if we so participate or engage unwittingly under an assumption of independence or autonomy that can then be defended against revelation of being a manipulated usurping or phishing of our thoughts and feelings.

Cultural values lived rather than lip-serviced extend as a basis for exchange, sharing and further unfolding of a felt and conscious sense or quality of worth.
Where or what we live from or extend the qualities and nature of will identify us, regardless what we claim to present, believe or defend.
A locked down identity is a mask to which the true is conformed as permission to speak or even think.
The nature of deeply invested masking defences is a tyranny that would operate covertly but cannot maintain such controls without war on life that it must then cast in narratives of justification or moral necessity - to save the mask or face of control to which the Economy at all levels has been consigned as hostage if not sacrifice.
Integrity is firstly a matter of integrative wholeness. Masking over inner conflicts has temporary expediency, but will compound debts & conflicts to critical levels of dissonance and dysfunction. The call to war runs a masking identity, the call to heal opens willingness to extend a shared identification that can only thus reveal as a point of real relationship and communication - for all else is weaponised to 'gain function' by framing masked intent in appearances of 'caring' or virtue.