Our brains are very bad at understanding what they see, and, despite my telling you that no rectangle exists, you and I both know that we’re cursed to continually see it. The way by which we create our own personal identities reflects the illusion of the sectors, although the victims who have been cut are not circles, but instead real people and communities with real lived experiences, each made into a corner or curve of our own being. That is, by recognizing and trying to exemplify how other parties are different from ourselves, we enforce and reinforce perceptions about ourselves and others. In this process, we try to learn and show who we are by learning and showing who we are not; we make non-identity that is to be avoided rather than focusing on the self and discerning who we are.
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