The Extrinsic Self is always ‘on the outside’ - it’s always ‘on the outside, looking in’. It can’t ever partake in life, even though it longs to do so; it’s always on the wrong side of an impenetrable glass wall...
When we turn our backs on the new then things start to get stale. The old is always stale. It might be safe, but it has no longer got any goodness in it…
First things get stale, then they get sour,...