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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Been thinking about this a lot recently http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
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haha I linked that in there
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I'm still sorting out my academic stuff. Sometimes I feel sort of high and mighty compared to ppl still in the academic mess, sometimes I feel like I was always an impostor and I wussed right out of there. who knows
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thesis: we adopt new identities more strongly than makes sense partially in order to justify to ourselves the rejection of the old one. I'm not all in on homesteading qua homesteading - I'm all in on homesteading AS A REJECTION OF THOSE SOUR ENTREPRENEUR GRAPES
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