“Namely, we assume human being is a singular, consistent self with a coherent set of goals. Perhaps, we're not.” Perhaps? There is a solid twenty-five years o

“Namely, we assume human being is a singular, consistent self with a coherent set of goals. Perhaps, we're not.” Perhaps? There is a solid twenty-five years of sociology that dismiss the collective “we” as nothing more than privilege and oppression. See Postcolonial theory, for example.