So much of this identity nonsense that we see in culture wars on both sides on both sides absolutely

It's people who don't really have much else over than that, you know over than their place in the culture wars

What's your identity? How do you identify?

We see more and more these days I identify as this.

I'm a vegetarian, I'm a trans activist, I'm a vegetarian I'm a trans activist I'm a football fan this is the club that I like and this is who I am based on the identity

How much is that important to you and where does that come from and how do you create that?

All these questions are more David Swift will answer David Swift the writer of the identity myth. I

Welcome you listener to yet another episode of On the Edge with

Andrew Gold and you know what's nice is when you interview someone who has what I'd

call an academic background as David does and find that they're actually a lot of fun easy to have some back and forth with and to laugh with and that's what I found today in the form of David Swift writer of the identity myth why we need to embrace our differences to beat inequality.

Now what does all that mean?

Well David takes a really eye-opening look at the identities we create for ourselves,

the stereotypes that we have about other people and about class, for example,

you know, the people who are working class think this, this is how they vote, and he dispels

many of those myths and also talks about you know identity changes how your

identity can change in different circumstances and environments many of you

will know that feeling maybe for example just being the posh one from home only to find at university you're the not so posh show or the alternative

bohemian person who then turns up somewhere where there are more alternative people and you're just the guy and you've lost your identity and where do you get your identity from?

In reality we are in some senses all the managers of our own public impressions. We all do it a little bit. We all try

and forge a little bit of like a, almost like an Instagram page but us as we walk around.

You know, we're at it all the time, forming others opinions of who we are.

Get the identity myth in all the normal places. There's a link in the show notes.

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