Humor & Popular Culture

If You Can’t Be Yourself

Sometimes it’s best if you lose your dinosaur

Dr. Matthew Pate
Counter Arts
Published in
9 min readSep 10, 2021

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A dinosaur under assembly at the Clinton Presidential Library. Source: Author.

In a recent essay I wrote about Clayton Moore, the actor who famously played the Lone Ranger. Moore’s autobiography is titled I Was That Masked Man, a play on “Who was that masked man?” a recurrent question in the Lone Ranger series. As I wrote that essay, I thought a lot about…

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Dr. Matthew Pate
Counter Arts

Criminal Justice Researcher. Erstwhile Detective, Author. Mixed Media Artist. Habitual Line Stepper. Loves Dogs and Cats. Holds Doors. Wishes for Better.