"Honest interaction takes identity."

Really, now. Every person has to have an "identity" before any "honest interaction" takes place? Have you never had an "honest interaction" with a nameless nobody on a plane, train, tram, trolley, bus, in the street, at the market...who you never saw again? Some of the most enlightening and revelatory conversations occur with complete strangers, because they are complete strangers. Psychologists have known this for a long time.