There is  for lack of a better term a profound weakness of identity that&#x27;s really common today.  I think it stems from people having mostly superficial relationships.  Where if you grew up in a small tight knit community people make reference to things you said or did at really young ages (4-8) which you can&#x27;t really escape from, but at the same time there is no need to.  Because, in some ways your still that person, or perhaps that person became you.<p>But, move out into the world and people are judging you on what breaks down to reputation and at most few hours of interactions.   Which makes it easy to pretend to be someone else.<p>That&#x27;s not to say it&#x27;s purely a bad thing.  When people identify strongly with a group it&#x27;s easy to lump &#x27;others&#x27; into a meaningless category and then do bad things. Still, being able to ignore someone you just met&#x27;s option as worthless is arguably a  valuable skill.