Thank you very much for taking the time to write this.
I generally don’t feel disagreement with what you say, I don’t think it’s completely opposed to what I’m advocating for. I feel that there’s a huge deal of interpretation around the words used, here “affiliation” (and as mentioned at the beginning of the post, not “identity”).
I do think more people “affiliating” will make EA less of an ingroup / outgroup, and more of a philosophy (a “general held value system” as you say in the beginning) people adhere to to some extent, esp if framed as “this is a community that inspires me, those are ideas that are influencing my actions”.
Thank you very much for taking the time to write this.
I generally don’t feel disagreement with what you say, I don’t think it’s completely opposed to what I’m advocating for. I feel that there’s a huge deal of interpretation around the words used, here “affiliation” (and as mentioned at the beginning of the post, not “identity”).
I do think more people “affiliating” will make EA less of an ingroup / outgroup, and more of a philosophy (a “general held value system” as you say in the beginning) people adhere to to some extent, esp if framed as “this is a community that inspires me, those are ideas that are influencing my actions”.