"In the Protean (anti-Promethean) universe in which everyone changes role randomly, all the anxieties and inhibitions which go with social and psychological identity are relaxed. This is why the Babylonians in Borges's fable had chosen to entrust their fate to the Lottery, preferring that uncertainty to the torments of individual responsibility and free will. [...]
To project one's ego absolutely anywhere, to embark upon interactivity with simply anyone, is not to become other. It is, in fact, the very opposite. The Other and otherness come into play only in a dual relationship, never in a multiple or plural one. Only in duality are the sexes fatal to each other. In multiple relations they are merely mirrors of each other, and interlocking self-refractions. If chance means that the combinations are infinite in number, and everything is possible, that is quite the opposite of Destiny."
— Jean Baudrillard, The Impossible Exchange (1999)
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