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I don't think this helps. It's not just having a space to meet. It's having a reason to meet. Without the unifying force of religion or another philosophy, we i
by tathougies 7y ago
I don't think this helps. It's not just having a space to meet. It's having a reason to meet. Without the unifying force of religion or another philosophy, we invariably devolve into family-based group identity, which is another word for ethnonationalism or identity politics.
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- bilbo0s 7y ago>which is another word for ethnonationalism or identity politics... To be fair, so is "religion" in practice.
- tathougies 7y agoIdentity politics, perhaps. Ethnonationalism, I don't think is an inherent part of it, as is seen in the universal audience of certain major religions, like Islam and Christianity
- jtmcmc 7y agothe obvious counter example to this is people who meetup and create subcultures - the array of which are vast.