Yeah? Well I identify as the Emperor of Carthage (Carthage had emperors, didn’t they?) so the gov better give me a palace and lots of gold, or they’re raaassisss!
There, you see? Isn’t that liberating?
We can all be someone else, or something else, every five minutes. And we can demand respect for our new identity with all the ferocity we like. And then we can switch identity and bite everyones heads off if they dont pick up on the change.