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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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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yeah this is all how they are plausibly interpreted to self and others. the context in the piece I linked was like... a plastic clothes hamper. not something likely to inspire/project identity, though not impossible I guess
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this is interesting bc I have similar thoughts but they led to a different sort of action. I concluded that my reluctance to admit very small home wasn't working was tied to identity as weirdo bohemians w ton of kids in the city.
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as such moving to bigger place was actually a loosening on identity rather than tightening
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