Trying to represent and perform identity in your pursuit of interests and curiosities is a bit like trying to have a full conversation with a cat, like it understands human language. Nature might respond somewhat to aspects of identity but the performance is largely lost on it.
I honestly think you're missing my point. I'm not making a normative point at all. I'm making what I think is a factual assertion: having a strong "identity performance" persona at all times makes you less able to be curious about and interested in, the world.
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And I'm saying the degree to which you have agency about your identity performance is constrained by exogenous factors.
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Performance is often “social behavior to counter narratives.” A lot of identitarianism is Foucault’s “Force produces a resistance,” except for resisting roles forced by dominant society narratives.
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