Today, the subject mistakenly considers itself an object.
We consider a subject to be sovereign, to have individual character and desires, which block us from fully understanding or controlling them. Their subjective individuality (perhaps irrationality) hinders the smooth functioning of the world.
Yet, if we consider the verb tense “to subject” it means to voluntarily submit, amor fati. While “to object” is to block or oppose, odium fati.
Our common misconception is that the active subject (agent) works on the passive object (a desire or material), which becomes a ludicrous reversal of terms. Instead, the subject is passive (submissive) to the object’s active disruption (thwarting and tickling).
This leads us to reconsider our emulation of being objective: to be strong individuals we enact blocking or thwarting, to prove our subjectivity we act like an object.
The sands become a stone, and cease to move. Yet submitting to the winds carries us around the world.
in part from Slavoj Žižek