The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

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