My brother and I concluded over dinner tonight that we can't stand artifice, facade, or people's constancy in feeling like they need to fit some image or ideal of what they want to see themselves as, i.e. listening to a particular kind of music, identifying with a certain cultural group, or adopting the style of some archetype.

The true liberation is simply people being who they are. Not forcing themselves into trying on the image like trying on a jacket. As he put it, "I don't understand when people say they want to BE something. You are something because you HAVE to be it."


At least we have something in common.