2/ Like, how many cultural sub-groups could you enumerate given just a few minutes? My guess: a lot. Now, how many of these can you accurately model, mentally. As in, accurately anticipate their needs, beliefs, norms, and how they allocate their attention? My guess: very few.
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3/ Now, let's say you're asked to render a political judgment over an issue that you don't understand or have much experience with. But, you're presented with identity cues, so you can mentally estimate the distance between yourself and the two position takers.
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4/ If you're doing some sort of consideration averaging with accessible identity cues as the consideration, the curse of dimensionality coupled with bounded cognition binds aggressively. Consequently, I assume you're error rises pretty fast.
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5/ If this happens, given your resulting confusion, isn't it easier to just say there is my identity and everyone else is other? All else equal, does the proliferation of identities -- or more accurately, revelation of their existence-- encourage adversarial group calculus?
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6/ And, does it have to? Or, is it an artifact of the way we've structured media? Or, is it a natural consequence of scarcity? Or, is it a case of the tyranny of an identity instrumentalism that almost implicitly rejects "all men are created equal" (men left intentionally)?
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7/ (I really don't know. This is far less than half-baked. I'm just spitballing hoping someone gives me a good course heading.)
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