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You Are What You Can't Not Do - by Edward

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Greetings from Ireland! After some enjoyable summer travels I’m back on home turf, and looking to bed in until Christmas. I have started a new job and so my remote working days are over for the moment, but perhaps more on that some other week. To all the subscribers who found their way here after this week’s guest post, you are all very welcome and I hope you like this week’s post – Enjoy! Gentle Reader, When cult leader and murderer Charles Manson was asked who he was, his response was rather terrifying. “I'm nobody. I'm a tramp, a bum, a hobo. I'm a boxcar and a jug of wine. And a straight razor ...if you get too close to me” Although Manson was clearly insane, his answer speaks to the subjectivity and multiplicity of identity. To those in his cult, Manson was a prophet, maybe even a messiah. To his victims and to society at large, he was a wicked and odious man, deeply mentally unwell. To his own mother, at some level, he was probably still just her little boy but, fundamentally, he

You Are What You Can't Not Do On Self-Identification Ed Aug 18, 2024 18 10 5 Share Greetings from Ireland! After some enjoyable summer travels I’m back on home turf, and looking to bed in until Christmas. I have started a new job and so my remote working days are over for the moment, but perhaps more on that some other week. To all the subscribers who found their way here after this week’s guest post, you are all very welcome and I hope you like this week’s post – Enjoy! Gentle Reader, When cult leader and murderer Charles Manson was asked who he was, his response was rather terrifying. “I'm n

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