Hong Kong, 2005

 

"Social life must be explained not by the conception of it formed by those who participate in it, but by the profound causes which escape their consciousness."

-- Emile Durkheim, The Rules of the Sociological Method (1893)

"What about support from the gay community? Now you would think that other gay people, being oppressed and all, would be open-minded and accepting, right? Wrong. Here’s where it gets ugly. Although there are lots of wonderful queer people out there, I’ve probably experienced the most racism from the gay community... The worst thing is, it’s never talked about because it’s uncomfortable for gay people to admit that as oppressed people, they themselves can be oppressors."

-- David Tsang, "Being Asian and Being Gay", The Peak

"The hostility to psychoanalysis in the past, today, and in the future, will always be a hostility against admitting that man lives by lying to himself about himself and about his world, and that character ... is a vital lie."

-- Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

Luang Prabang, Laos, 2005