“What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.” CarePartyIssuesPolicyIdentityDemocraticMereDebateHealth CareStakesDemocratic Party Author:Thomas Frank
“I have been moving around all my life. Going to different schools, living in different houses, shedding old roles, assuming new ones. This way of life is as natural to me as staying in one place is for other people. I do variations on the theme. I return to places where I used to be. I find my old personas. I try them on. If they still fit, I wear them out to a party or a show. If they begin to restrict my movements, I take them off. I am a human being, capable of mimicking anything I see or remember or can imagine.” PeopleIfsWayTryingHumansHas BeensStillsDifferentShowsSchoolRememberMovingLife IsUsedHouseNaturalHuman BeingsPartyRolesImagineMovementIdentityReturnFitCapableAssumingUsed To BeThemeStayingVariationPersonaMimicking Book:Falling Through Space Source: Falling Through Space
“I'm not attached to a certain scene. There was certain music - and techno was a part of it - that really formulated something for me, that really was a direct connection to what I experienced in my life. Going to parties and listening to techno at home helped form my musical identity. And that changed throughout my life.” HomeFormCertainPartyIdentityChangedListeningSceneDirectConnectionsMusicalTechno Author:Pantha du Prince
“If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.” IfsNeedsDoneWholeTogetherSidesLosesPartyIdentityFolksAccomplishAisle Author:Tom Allen
“I have repeatedly stressed that the selfish impulses of man constitute a much less historic danger than his integrative tendencies. To put it in the simplest way: the individual who indulges in an excess of aggressive self-assertiveness incurs the penalties of society-he outlaws himself, he contracts out of the hierarchy. The true believer, on the other hand, becomes more closely knit into it; he enters the womb of his church, or party, or whatever the social holon to which he surrenders his identity.” MenWaySelfHandsIndividualSocialChurchPartyDangerIdentityBelieverSelfishSurrenderTendenciesImpulseContractsAggressiveExcessPenaltiesSimplestHistoricWombHierarchyIndulgeStressedIndulge InOutlawTrue BelieverAssertiveness Author:Arthur Koestler
“The scene at a certain time was definitely boys; those huge warehouses were kind of violent parties, even. I think people in your immediate community made a nightlife scene that actually did break down gender roles and were along different lines of identity that had to do with race and experience in the '90s, rather than gender.” PeopleThinkingKindMadeDifferentCertainCommunityLinesPartyRaceBoysRolesBreakIdentityHugeSceneGenderViolentBreaking DownGender RolesWarehouseNightlife Author:Le1f