The f.Law of Identity


… He who fails on Monday will still be called a “failure,” come Thursday.

… He who spoke yesterday will still be called a “speaker” tomorrow. Even if his mouth remains shut the entire day.

… He who stole ten dollars ten years ago will still be a “thief” — to he who the ten dollars were stolen from — in ten years’ time.

… She who broke a heart in 1986 is still a “heartbreaker” today, mid 2011, to he whose heart she shattered twenty-five years ago.

“Identity itself is an outdated concept. We are not some static and immutable list of descriptors and qualities. We are flexible and under constant change—we’re all in perpetual beta.” — Haydn Sweterlitsch

(“Now” is so momentary that identifying a person, based on their deeds — or lack thereof, is to refer to what they once did. But rarely on what that person is doing.)




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— May 31, 2011.