There’s some footage from Charlottesville where the mob was yelling in unison “Black Lives Matter!” and “White Lives Matter!” at each other. Those lyrics may seem different, but the beat is the same. We hear a sea of individuals screaming from the pain of self-abandonment. They want to matter to themselves. They are asking the outside to fix the inside. How we treat ourselves is what should matter. When we stop pandering to identity, identity will lose its currency. In this collapse, the self can re-emerge as captain.
