Being Yourself (S2E3)

It’s like the lack of communal tables in restaurants.2 They’re good not so much because you can go and sit with other people, but so that your solitariness is better situated within a public space. Alone, but not isolated. It’s the difference between a club where everyone is clumped into their friend groups and one where everyone is facing the DJ. ... See more

Selfhood in humans is not the expression of any central unity. We are programmed to perceive identity in ourselves, when in truth there is only change, We are hardwired for the illusion of self.

- John Gray, as quoted by Tim Carpenter in To Photograph Is To Learn How To Die