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Heh what a curious person. Can't help but think his desire to leave behind collective identities has been crushed recently. All we seem to do these days is re
by psychphysic 3y ago
Heh what a curious person.
Can't help but think his desire to leave behind collective identities has been crushed recently.
All we seem to do these days is reinforce collective identities and vie to join and exclude particular groups and people.
- nathan_compton 3y agoConsider a few things. Acting a collective fashion is extremely powerful. It could be eminently rational to sacrifice a few incidental personal goals in order to join a collective which can achieve some of your larger ones. Another thing to consider: I think, in general, the arrow is moving away from monolithic collectives and towards smaller, overlapping, more individualistic, identities because of the internet. This has had a lot of effects on society, one of which is to make smaller collectives seem louder and more powerful. Before, culture was so monolithic that alternative views had to be pretty widely shared or violently asserted to make a splash.
- bitlax 3y agoI suppose as an individual there aren't very many of you.