“It’s important as an individual not to identify with the characteristics of a group. And it’s very tricky because you’re constantly binned into thinking of yourself as black, gay, white, poor, but those are not really qualities of individuals. Individuals are more complex than that. You may have a gay component, you may have a black portion of your genetic heritage but it doesn’t define yourself as a group. That’s a trick that was launched by print in the act of creating this peculiar entity called the public. The public is a fiction of the print created galaxy. You are not a citizen and you are not part of the public unless you seriously do damage to your humaness in order to fit yourself into such a narrow definition.” – Terence McKenna