I don't believe in identity. Nobody has any identity. There is no such thing as identity other than in the mathematical sense x = x. If you identify as something, you are just imagining it. I am an aidentitist.
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In the context you are referring too, I rather understand identity as class, as in: I belong to these classes: Nostr user, English speaker, and so on. Do you believe in classes?
I don't believe in classes. They are fictional boxes that we imagine and talk about. I'm not saying it is not useful to imagine and talk about classes... e.g. the "noble gasses". I'm just reminding everybody that they don't actually exist except as fictions we construct.
Now do object oriented programming 😁
Oxygen breather?
By considering the class of oxygen breathers and assigning an identity to them all (I presume all animals breathe oxygen), you are imagining a division among an undivided universe. A useful fiction. "Naming is the source of all particular things" -Buddha
Sorry that was Laozi (Lao Tsu) who wrote "The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things."
The Tao Te Ching 道德经 is as close as I get to religion/spirituality. It's just a perspective though, libertarian, stoic.
"Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking."
Socially reinforced fictional constructs at that.
That’s not to say that in broad terms they have some validity.
As much as I'd like to agree I think we have to be honest, humans do see identity. It's not what you think about onself but how people perceive you. Some of it is in your control but interpretation is up to them.
I mean how do you think racists identify a particular person they don't like, solely based on skin color. Even if that person has as much in common with them besides skin color.
Yes of course. But it is helpful to recognize that ... and here race is a very good example .. there are actually 3,054,815,472 DNA base pairs. Which ones make up your race? What if you have 32 ancestors all of different historical races, then what are you? It is very fuzzy, and where you draw the line defines the group, so the group is by definition at least partially made up. Gerrymandered. Therefore, don't put too much stock in it.
Oh yes of course, I don't put that much emphasis on it.
I live in a country where that is, sadly, the case.
aidentitist seems more extreme than this guy: http://paulgraham.com/identity.html
I like his essay.
If everything is math (reduces to it), then identity is somehow as true as x = x, just higher on the tower of abstraction.
Am I using nostr correctly? Just say stuff unprompted? :)
Hell ya. Just say stuff. That's what I do. Whatever pops into my head, if it piques my interest or makes me laugh.