Eugene Louis "Gore" Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.
If identity of the self is the way forward, I dare you to dare, to challenge yourself but please do so within an Ethos of your ideal moral character. Virtue is, in part, a act, a performance and a destination worthy of living.
We are listening but we tend to keep on walking, immersed in our own realities of proximal and distal influences of potentiality. Submissive for some and counter-intuitive for most, the social fall out is far from tribal, identities shift while paradigms persist.
