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Walt Whitman on identity and the paradoxical conflict of change

["Song of Myself," Walt Whitman]

We have a strong repulsion to being thought of as hypocrites. I think we take it too far sometimes.

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re: persistence of 'identity' online: "In 20 Years No One Will Be Qualified to Be President"

Another  potential outcome is that we as a culture will learn to be more tolerant of what people do in their personal lives, especially as youth. Americans are plagued by an endearing notion of “Character”–that what we do in our personal lives speaks to our fitness for professional tasks. When complete lives are increasingly archived, we may need to step back from that ideal and let our leaders be human.

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Social Media Mullet: a clever bit of insight on identity in the digital world

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