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My point wasn't to slam on psychology; just the article seems to imply identity through shallow psychological labels is a new phenomenon, when it is as old as c
by kthejoker2 2y ago
My point wasn't to slam on psychology; just the article seems to imply identity through shallow psychological labels is a new phenomenon, when it is as old as civilization itself.
- Apocryphon 2y agoAnd it’s not even just psychological labels, either. In East Asia, mostly Japan, blood types are used as a form of astrology (literally type A personalities). And in other contexts modern people sometimes self-identify based on their supposed chronotype or whether they’re an endomorph or an exomorph in order to retroactively explain their nature or behaviors. Self-identity is often used for self-justification.