not sure if it's @amelapay 's thesis here or not, but my takeaway is "it's crazy to live in cities, and 90% of the reason for doing so is strange concepts of 'identity' "
(I've made some bad decisions based on identity myself, so I regard it as a threat)
https://www.pamelajhobart.com/blog/how-homes-work …
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Intellectually I think that identity is mostly bad (or, rather, there is rapidly declining marginal utility to it), and I realized a week or so ago "ugh, at least going by social media I am presenting WAY TOO MUCH as "identity = homesteader" and have been trying to dial that back
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altho, also, re > The intentional display of decorative objects is crowded out by the unintentional display of functional objects. there's the edge case where the identity * IS * functional. Thus stoves and stockpots (or tractors and gardens) become signifiers
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