“Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.” PeopleWorldFeelsBelieveMadeIdentityCoreAttractiveFakeEmptinessReplacedHollowDetachmentNumbness Author:Douglas Coupland
“The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an ability to conceive a priori of melodic identities which when transposed, inverted, made retrograde, or transformed rhythmically will yet exhibit, in conjunction with the original subject matter, some entirely new but completely harmonious profile.” ArtMadeMatterAbilitySubjectsIdentityOriginalsComposerTransformedHarmoniousExhibitsSubject MatterProfilePrerequisitesConjunctionsInvertedRetrograde Author:Glenn Gould
“The male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess. The farthest out male is the dragqueen, but he, although different from most men, is exactly like all other dragqueens; like the functionalist, he has an identity - a female; he tries to define all his troubles away - but still no individuality. Not completely convinced that he's a woman, highly insecure about being sufficiently female, he conforms compulsively to the man-made feminine stereotype, ending up as nothing but a bundle of stilted mannerisms.” MenTryingMadeStillsDifferentDesireAcceptingTroubleIdentityDegreesFemaleMalesIndividualityDareConvincedFeminineStereotypeConformInsecureBundlesPassivityMannerismsDare To Be Different Book:SCUM Manifesto Source: SCUM Manifesto