“Language is fundamentally unsuitable ( and should never be employed this way ) for the determination of identity. And any time such determinations, literally, the negotiation of identity in »actual relationships … becomes a matter of explicit, declarative language… we should realize that… effectively… we are experiencing two cataclysms at the same time. In the first, explicit, declarative language … becomes common or commonly adopted. In the second, we have become so confused as to explicitly define personal identity… with a word or acronym. The latter is evidence of the total collapse of relational coherence in a people or cohort. The former? Let us say this: it won’t last long, because war and tyrannies of every conceivable form are coming with the dawn…”

— an a i