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PG’s “Keep Your Identity Small” essay unwittingly gets at basic reason why identity politics exists. “Small identity” in sociology is like “thin client” in computing. It needs a compatible fat cloud. No prizes for guessing what sets identity size lower limit in a given society.
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That gets at another interesting aspect: minimal identity comprises precisely those beliefs that are hard to outsource to electric monks. An electric monk can believe things about javascript for you (opinionated frameworks) but not (for instance) that “Mormons are oppressed”
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are there times where small identities are not the right strategy? or is that a good advice in all situations? thinking here that accepting your "culture war" reading almost requires increasing one's identity, at least temporarily.
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