What Claudiu wrote as part of his report of meeting with Geoffrey has been on my mind also :
Another interesting thing he imparted to me was just how much social identity can remain even for the basically free people. In other words, the ‘bar’ to basic actual freedom is really not that high. You don’t have to clean up all or even nearly all of your social identity issues… that being said, simultaneously it is still absolutely everything for me to self-immolate, as I (the feeling-being) am indeed fully going extinct, make no mistake about it. But you don’t have to clean up every last thing. It’s more a matter of seeing the way to oblivion and going there, full-on.
I always thought the bar was super super high so ‘I’ definitely made sure to tackle any potential “side quests” to fully prep the grounds. Which is to say that ‘I’ can stop concerning ‘myself’ with anything else other than self-immolation. What ‘I’ (the particular identity writing these words) require is not any more “actualist achievements”, it is more in the other direction of no longer being any kind of special ‘I’, of daring to care and caring to dare.