And we all construct identities for ourselves anyway, right? Online and in real life, we decide how to present ourselves, we teach each other how to behave, and we reinforce for one another which ideas we’re keeping and which ones we’re throwing away. Good manners are a social construct, weekends are a social construct, values and beliefs and democracy, all social constructs, all ideas that we have come to agree to in our various interactions with other humans over time.
