Importantly, social identity is *only* an address. That is why a trivial marker (facial hair) works to distinguish the two universes. It happens to be gendered but that’s unimportant. It could be a nongendered trait like long hair.
Yep that’s the pop misunderstanding. The theory does not say significant events stop happening. Only that they don’t constitute history in a useful technical sense, because they stop mattering in key ways.
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what I hear is, “there has been born conditions where a higher order of abstraction qualifies the meaning of events, not the events themselves (where the meaning of events can only be discerned by highly specialized experts)”. Am I wrong?
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isn’t identitarianism on some level a reclamation of particularist meaning?
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