“There is no more popular myth than that ordinary people belong to a ‘we’ that isn’t either absolute or ‘consumer/ed’ fiction, or the shadow of a collective victimhood. Either of these is lethal, for where our collectivity is either a forgery of absence or the result of presumed mutual victimhood, what we have is not a collective but a diseased disability masquerading as unity and agreement.

Therefore I demand that each of us refuse to use this term for any collective that was not specifically established by ourselves, together, in actual agreement, mutual concern, and active maintenance of true collectivity.”

— an anonymous informant