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Unbundling and rebundling identity along vertical/horizontal integration dimensions 🤔 Horizontal: freedom, trust, gamesmanship, rationality, risk, price Vertical: happiness, loyalty, community, meaning, enchantment, value
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"you identify with what you trust" maybe, but "you identify with what your freedom is" doesn't make sense, or "you identify with what your rationality is", or "you identify with what your price is". is that just me, do you think you can classify your identity in those terms?
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You're working with a subjective rather than intersubjective constraint on what identity is. Think of identity as the union of key relationships. Then think of the grain of that. For a family/clan context, it's a set of asymmetric relationships like parent/child/grandparent...
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ok, identity as "I am X's parent, Y's child, and Z's grandparent", that makes sense. in the same way you could say "I am a citizen of X country" or "I am a member of Y professional society", I guess. Is that where you're going with the horizontal identity?
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There's a sort of ergodicity angle. In vertical mode, everybody you relate to right now represents a point in the past or future of your individual trajectory. {child, parent, grandparent} is an ergodic set. In horizontal mode, that's less true/less strong
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kinda, though of course, there are asymmetries between powerful and weak citizens, or between bosses and employees. This is why, this relational way of thinking about it is a derivative/extrinsic way, and my initial set of 2 attribute lists was more about intrinsic modes
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