The Paradox of Sincerity: Unity of Right and Wrong in Sincere Role Enactment

Agamemnon cannot be blamed for a choice he was bound to be both right and wrong in taking. This is the basic contradiction of the Sincerity mode of identity technology. Let's explore it!

Aeschylus’s Orestia depicts, like other great Greek tragedies, the paradoxes at play in the sincerity mode of identity technology. In the pre-modern world, who we were was tied to the roles we occupied. Identity was not yet, as we get with the Age of Enlightenment, a question of finding your authentic self. The idea of ‘finding your true self’ would not have made much sense in the pre-modern world. The notion of identity being a process of profile curation, as we see in our age of profilicity, would have, of course, made even less sense.