Anyone who escapes the ordinary categories and distinctions by which we define ourselves and each…

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Anyone who escapes the ordinary categories and distinctions by which we define ourselves and each other indirectly threatens the identities of other people, who are likely to react with a violent impulse to reenvisage this defector from the identity regime. By refusing the distinctions of prestige and status, you threaten to reveal their arbitrariness to the world, and those whose very being depends on those distinctions will fight to prevent that, without even knowing what they are doing.

Alexander Douglas, Against Identity: The Wisdom of Escaping the Self

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