She didn’t try to leverage it into a rhetoric of cruelty, nor did she try to transform it into a self-congratulatory orgy of empathy, much less a “celebration” of people’s “identities.”

She saw too much internal division, in herself and in others, to believe in “identity.”

The interesting part is that each organism presumably assumes its environment to be the entire objective reality “out there”.

Why would any of us stop to think that there is more beyond what we can sense?