Re:Orthodox Privilege
by specialist on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @12:39PM
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I highly recommend Ezra Klein's Why We Are Polarized.
My personal takeaway TLDR:
faceted identity is normal.
increasing sorting and polarization somehow coincides with all of our identities becoming much more aligned, aka superidentities.
the novelty is social media activating and amplifying identity.
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Presumably these social pendulums will swing back. Methinks Millennials and younger will go in the direction of the phyles from Stephenson's The Diamond Age. Where people chose their cohorts, which all kind of mutually coexist.
My personal takeaway TLDR:
faceted identity is normal.
increasing sorting and polarization somehow coincides with all of our identities becoming much more aligned, aka superidentities.
the novelty is social media activating and amplifying identity.
--
Presumably these social pendulums will swing back. Methinks Millennials and younger will go in the direction of the phyles from Stephenson's The Diamond Age. Where people chose their cohorts, which all kind of mutually coexist.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age