i choose my signature scent to intensify who i am, not to become someone else. the same is true of everything else i choose. to me, self-expression is an art, and like all art, it begins with self-knowledge.
The conceit that people in the past were all dumb, gullible rubes to whom we are obviously & profoundly intellectually superior is a defining feature of our own era. It keeps us from grappling in a real way with deep questions about the nature of reality, esp. regarding religion.