This is a good point. I don’t think it necessarily conflicts with my suggestions, which are more about allowing people and organizations within the EA ecosystem to spend a small part of their time and resources on exploring various aesthetics, rather than picking an aesthetic identity and sticking to it.
I also think that aesthetics can absolutely be apolitical (I assume you mean the term in a stricter sense like “mapping to current areas of political disagreement in society,” since in a broad sense EA is about allocating common resources and therefore inherently political). But yes, the failure mode you describe seems real and should be kept in mind.
This is a good point. I don’t think it necessarily conflicts with my suggestions, which are more about allowing people and organizations within the EA ecosystem to spend a small part of their time and resources on exploring various aesthetics, rather than picking an aesthetic identity and sticking to it.
I also think that aesthetics can absolutely be apolitical (I assume you mean the term in a stricter sense like “mapping to current areas of political disagreement in society,” since in a broad sense EA is about allocating common resources and therefore inherently political). But yes, the failure mode you describe seems real and should be kept in mind.