I found this post harder to understand than the rest of the series. The thing youāre describing makes sense in theory, but I havenāt seen it in practice and Iām not sure what it would look like.
What EA-related lifestyle changes people would other people find alienating? Veganism? Not participating in especially expensive activities? Talking about EA?
I havenāt found ātalking about EAā to be a problem, as long as Iām not trying to sell my friends on it without their asking first. I donāt think EA is unique in this way ā Iād be annoyed if my religious friends tried to proselytize to me or if my activist friends were pressuring me to come and protest with them.
If I talk about my job or what Iāve been reading lately in the sense of āhereās my life updateā, that goes fine, because weāre all sharing those kinds of life updates. I avoid the EA-jargon bits of my job and focus on human stories or funny anecdotes. (Similarly, my programmer friends donāt share coding-related stories I wonāt understand.)
And then, when weāre not sharing stories, weāre doing things like gaming or hiking or remembering the good times, all of which seem orthogonal to EA. But all friendships are different, and I assume Iām overlooking obstacles that other people have encountered.
I found this post harder to understand than the rest of the series. The thing youāre describing makes sense in theory, but I havenāt seen it in practice and Iām not sure what it would look like.
What EA-related lifestyle changes people would other people find alienating? Veganism? Not participating in especially expensive activities? Talking about EA?
I havenāt found ātalking about EAā to be a problem, as long as Iām not trying to sell my friends on it without their asking first. I donāt think EA is unique in this way ā Iād be annoyed if my religious friends tried to proselytize to me or if my activist friends were pressuring me to come and protest with them.
If I talk about my job or what Iāve been reading lately in the sense of āhereās my life updateā, that goes fine, because weāre all sharing those kinds of life updates. I avoid the EA-jargon bits of my job and focus on human stories or funny anecdotes. (Similarly, my programmer friends donāt share coding-related stories I wonāt understand.)
And then, when weāre not sharing stories, weāre doing things like gaming or hiking or remembering the good times, all of which seem orthogonal to EA. But all friendships are different, and I assume Iām overlooking obstacles that other people have encountered.
(Also, props for doing the research!)