We used to know ourselves by looking to what was most familiar—to our bodies, families, customs, and traditions. Who we were was tied to place, a community of relations whose bearings remained fixed and stable. Today, such embeddedness is intolerable. Identity is something we create, something we express while compelling the recognition of others. Yet, our new “fluid” selves have yielded only homelessness, an existence without roots in either place or person. We live under the specter of there being nothing our own. From where does our permanence derive? Surprisingly, it might be accepting ourselves as beholden to others—as ineluctably given—by which we regain our sense of who we really are.
Re-Source: Classic Texts
Articles
Book Reviews
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The Tragedy of Unreality by Eirik Steenhoff
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Anthony Esolen, Sex and the Unreal City: The Demolition of the Western Mind
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The Uses of Identity by Marc Barnes
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Mary Eberstadt, Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics
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Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
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The Transgender Movement: Identity Confusion by Susan Waldstein
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Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
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Antonio Malo, Transcending Gender Ideology: A Philosophy of Sexual Difference
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The Rootless Tragedy of the "Real America" by Michael Moss
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Kevin Williamson, Big White Ghetto: Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid, and High on Rage in the Dank Woolly Wilds of the “Real America”
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