Swanwick Star Issue No.15 (2022)

Are we willing to drop our identities?

 

Javier* began the meeting with some comments on the present

situation in the world with its conflicts, divisions, violence, and

nationalism. The root of violence, he pointed out, is the notion of self or

the separate “me”. Identity is based on memory, the structures of the

past, and the contradictions of thought, which creates its own problems.

Are we willing to drop our identities and our sense of separateness?

Javier asked.

*Javier Gomez Rodriguez