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“No one makes themselves; we all make and unmake one another.”
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
“And so the question remains: What aren’t we building when we are building our brands?”
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
“Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become tainted, like most things American, by the puritanical paradigm of original sin.”
― Rejection
― Rejection
“I loved Twitter: an open, rhizomatic forum where you could aggravate existing mental illnesses, shop for new ones, violate your Miranda rights, and get fired. A place to be judged on the character of your content, driven by rubbernecking and spite, where fame is a millstone and names are bad op-sec. Twitter was the right word for it, birdsong being a Darwinian squall mistaken for idle chatter, screaming for territory and mates. An improv class, press conference, intervention, Klan rally, comics convention, and struggle session all booked in the same conference room.”
― Rejection
― Rejection
“At bottom, it comes down to who and what we cannot bear to see—in our past, in our present, and in the future racing toward us. Performing and partitioning and projecting are the individual steps that make up the dance of avoidance.”
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
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