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What every modern essentialist is really asserting is a desire to remain what they are at any cost. The anti-essentialist believes in change. There is some justified fear of the anti-essentialist, since belief in change often goes hand in hand with prescribing it by force. 1/2
However, this assumes that the anti-essentialist believes that there is one standard of good for everyone. Usually the fastest way to tell whether this is true or not is whether the anti-essentialist is a capitalist or not. However, capitalism is becoming less heterogeneous 2/3
As we approach an ostensible singularity, the choices are whether to preserve the cultural, social, and economic niches currently in existence, or whether to allow these to undergo change. A rabid effort is currently underway to identify capitalism with the niches it has occupied
The riddle is whether capitalism will remain heterogenous, or find homogeneity in the lowest common denominators of humanity. The latter being falsely identified as a refuge by the modern essentialist; it likely cannot preserve them, it is too small for what they want to preserve
The most probable outcome is a heterogeneous variety of cultural goods designed to meet an increasingly homogeneous set of needs. The real question is, what causes heterogeneous needs to arise in the first place, and can such mechanisms be bred, and at an ideal rate? ?/?
A human race without heterogeneous needs is not human at all. The modern essentialist sins against his own desire to remain himself; his niche is only possible in the context of a larger collection of processes that he is trying to destroy because they threaten to overwhelm him
It seems that the problem is growth rate; e.g., nobody cared about transgender until Tumblr blew up and there were a million genderqueers. Nobody cared about the weird ideological tendencies of the academy until everyone went to college and learned to speak these languages.
Fragmentation and consolidation. Solve and coagula. That which is above is like that which is below. Creativity edges into psychosis and its absence into autism. The growing pains of a developing collective mind. We will end up either psychotic or senescent if we're not careful.
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