Zuckerberg in an interview:
The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly…Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.
The notion that “having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity” is the sentiment of someone who’s never had to code-switch, someone who’s never had to be in the closet for fear of getting kicked out of the house … For many, many people, having more than one identity isn’t a sign of “lack of integrity” because it’s not even really a personal choice. It’s the only way to survive in a world that isn’t always perfectly willing to accept and respect them for who they are.
Arendt argued that plurality is the quintessential condition for an active and autonomous human life. It is the recognition that we all share a world, that we are different, and that what we have in common are our differences.
For Zuckerberg to dismiss plurality and fault those who demand it for a lack of integrity …
The dream of totalitarians is to eradicate joy, meaning, and the idea of time itself by imposing a unified identity on all, a universal internalized censor that is really a language in which thinking forbidden thoughts is impossible, a society of robots or bees.
Identity is an illusion masking our essential hybridism, a locus for dialogue. Language–others disembodied in language and re-embodied Osiris-like in our brains– is the source of the joy that sustains the meaning of life.