Sarte on the Bus

While I was riding to and from Cincinnati on Greyhound to my concert on Monday I read 'The Trancendence of the Ego' by Sarte. It is short, thought-provoking, and very readable. It keeps hammering home the idea that the 'I' is produced only on reflection; immediate experiences are only of something, not of ME experiencing something. Anyway, it sets up the liberating idea that who we are is only based on memory of what we have done. That is, we are totally free to make choices NOW not based in reflection. It's almost so obvious as to be not worth considering, yet there's something honest about it that resonates with me (ha, ha).