I would suggest laying off the heavy recreational reading until after college. You will be doing enough thought provoking reading as it is the next 4 years, and (more importantly) there is too much fun to be had. Get over yourself and your obvious disgust of the lumpenproletariat sheep around you and really get to know the people around you.

You have the rest of your life to be a thinker, but you are only an undergrad for 4 years. I suggest you take full advantage.

identities are complex, multi-faceted things. when people give you a few words about their experiences and triumphs they hope to give you a little window into a much deeper soul. experiences-including triumphs and failures- define identities.

have you ever considered that maybe the reason that you haven’t been able to “get to know people” is that you immediately categorize and rip apart their conception of identity while insisting that their understanding of themselves is incorrect since you’re so confused about your own?

it’s not other people’s fault that you can’t figure out a bit about who you are. by eighteen or nineteen, most people have at least an idea. identities change. people change. just because identities aren’t static doesn’t mean people aren’t entitled to explore theirs and have a bit of pride in them. it’s called expression.

throughout your article you put yourself on a pedestal above others and insist that everyone else should be as formless as you. this in itself is just as much egoism as anyone else shows, and just because you cover your ass with a few barely-parseable sentences at the end doesn’t cancel out the parade of your superiority complex that is this article.

stop hiding your social failure and blinding arrogance behind messy syntax and thesaurus overuse—-go read Atlas Shrugged like every other anxious, self-denying narcissist of a fifteen year old does.