Have you noticed that the reproaches levelled against us, even when justified, are quite contradictory? Some say we’re dirty; others that we’re neurotically clean. […] Some say we’re priggish; others that we are too sensual. […] That’s the genius of the organization: that we are at once so dispersed and so unified, so similar and so disunited. Only this way, probably, could we have survived so many persecutions.

Susan Sontag, ‘Old Complaints Revisited,’ I, Etcetera (1978)