"Identity politics" is all the rage now. We take a few words or even feelings about ourselves and weave an entire identity out of our undisciplined passions and call it a "community." We segment the population into "rich" or "poor" "white" or "black" or "hispanix" or any other made-up group and then we dump folks…
All I can say was it was embarrassing! I could have sworn the person I ran up to in the store was a buddy of mine from High School. I just knew this was going to be a fun reunion, and we’d laugh about that time we all… and we’d talk about the old days…