This isn’t a particularly novel thought, but it feels as if it’s become less a part of how we think about ourselves.

Saying: ‘I am’ something is very different from doing something. Or ‘we are’, the commercial version, as in: ‘we are considerate builders.’ These identity statements are so confusing. Who in the world am I if I say who I am? Who in the world are they if they say that’s who they are? Maybe it’s more true to say, these days, that someone saying ‘I am’ is likely to be someone who is ‘not’.

What am I doing and what have I done? What are they doing and what have they done? Who’s to look at and assess these things? Who, exactly?

Isn’t the problem about authority?