I believe I keep my identity small “naturally”. The idea of belonging to an identity kind of gives me an icky feeling. I’m not attracted to the idea of being part of an identity or describing myself as being part of an identity. I do not express myself as being a rationalist or any other sort of group you could plausibly describe as being part of my identity.
This is not to say that I don’t do rationalist things. I do not find the concept of an identity useful in describing or motivating the actions I take.
Keeping my identity small is more just a side effect of other processes. I do not have the value “keep your identity small”. Keeping my identity small just falls out of other processes. However, in the past, I’m sure I’ve mistakenly described the reason I don’t have identity X is “because I want to keep my identity small”. I’m not sure why that is. It seems easier to describe the process that way?
This is all to say that some percentage of people saying they’re doing X to keep their identity small are misconstruing what is happening. I do not know how common this is, but surely it’s not zero percent.
I believe I keep my identity small “naturally”. The idea of belonging to an identity kind of gives me an icky feeling. I’m not attracted to the idea of being part of an identity or describing myself as being part of an identity. I do not express myself as being a rationalist or any other sort of group you could plausibly describe as being part of my identity.
This is not to say that I don’t do rationalist things. I do not find the concept of an identity useful in describing or motivating the actions I take.
Keeping my identity small is more just a side effect of other processes. I do not have the value “keep your identity small”. Keeping my identity small just falls out of other processes. However, in the past, I’m sure I’ve mistakenly described the reason I don’t have identity X is “because I want to keep my identity small”. I’m not sure why that is. It seems easier to describe the process that way?
This is all to say that some percentage of people saying they’re doing X to keep their identity small are misconstruing what is happening. I do not know how common this is, but surely it’s not zero percent.