I think “Identity” is very important to humankind cause it’s justifies certain people and
cultures cause in another sense is the clarification for identities. By educating and providing us with social, political, economical, national, religious and cultural groups, the society in general offers us a wide range of roles to adapt or achieve, and we are rewarded if
we do these roles as well as possible roles of teenagers, workers, business people,politicians, priests, doctors, spouses, parents, pensioners, Italians, Greeks.
The traditions, the dispositions and the country where we live;they also enables us
to do certain roles. This push, sometimes subtle and gentle, sometimes blunt and insolent, forcibly imposed or voluntarily accepted, modifies our nature up to a level that we may become fully identified with the designated or a adapted role . We may even stop to notice what adaptations we have made when we are emphasizing roles, assuming that what we are doing is participating in a genuine and authentic life. Unfortunately,this is not the case.
Each role inevitably clarifies some “fixed identity”. Society prefers to operate with fixed identities, they help to divide people into groups, to 'push' the groups into separated "boxes" and computer files (hierarchical or nested into one another), to label these boxes and files with names, numbers and codes, and then to do with them all sorts of manipulations. And above all, is to exercise control.
Social control cannot function without building a well structured system of fixed
identities. It is easier to exercise control over “fixed identities” than over “individually
identities “ which are elusive, flexible, resistant to control, open for change, evolution and growth. When squeezed into a fixed group of identity, individual identity is in danger to
lose its uniqueness and to become a mediocre entity in a majority of 'they‐say' people, easily
susceptible for manipulation and corruption.
Living individual identities are chaotic ‐ extremely sensitive to changes occurring in both
external and internal human conditions, unpredictable and, therefore, for nothing. Fixed
identities are locked into pre‐designed ordered patterns ‐ insensitive to changes, easily predictable and, therefore, untrue. All kinds of control tools like tax file numbers, license numbers, passports, identity cards, certificates, permission for residence, visas, social security numbers ,etc. are continuously put into operation in day_to‐day's society in order to keep human identities fixed.