Thoughts on identity

You don’t have any identity.
Identity doesn’t exist.
It’s an imagined construct.

Being born in a geographical position doesn’t give you identity. Producing different levels of melanin doesn’t give you identity. You are just a biological machine designed to pass on genes belonging to the animal homo-sapien. What you see and hear is a lie. Your perceived reality is based on excitation of receptors within the eyeball stimulated by photons reflecting off of solid matter. Vibrations and pressure change in the air stimulate the receptors on the side of your head creating what you call sound. Your brain receives stimuli from a variety of receptors and you form a simulation you call reality. As the brain learns more it can further develop its theories and understanding of the universe building upon its simulation of our world. Though the universe is truly incomprehensible… our brain fills in the gaps from of lack of knowledge and understanding. We create biases. We group things to use less brain power. We group people and we group ourselves, giving rise to labels, and identity. Through dualistic mindset we see in black and white thinking, us and them. Our modern ideas on identity are a relatively new social construct in the history of homo sapien.

Our perceived identities wrapped around the myth of innocence leads to violence. Myth of innocence is caused from perceived identity. We see the group we belong to as the “good guys” as we create a black and white world based on our susceptible nature to see the world in a dualistic manner instead of infinite. The perceived superiority of the perceived identity through perceived innocence elevates the believer of this dualistic mindset to believe that they are right, and everyone else is wrong. There is no room for discussion outside of the dualistic right and wrong model, because more than two sides cannot be seen.