Posted by In our modern world, we are so often defined by labels – our nationality, our skin colour, our gender, our sexuality, our age, our marital status, our job, whether we went to University, whether we support Liverpool FC or Wolverhampton Wanderers, whether we spend our weekends doing park runs or Morris dancing or making papier-mâché dinosaurs. These labels, the groups we belong to, shape us – from the big stuff (our cultural references and world view) right down to the minutiae of our personality – but we are much more than them. As in everything, humans are complex and individual.
Matt Kendrick (“How We Fit In”)
The genius in this piece is how it reads as a genuine police report, matter-of-fact language that appears objective, so that we don’t initially question the incongruity…
Matt Kendrick, on Awake Since ’78 (“How We Fit In”)
