I think this was highlighted really well in Maha's Organizational Development Class. This like pursuit of perfect operationalization tends to stifle innovation and lead to an organizations that's incapable of pivoting which can often lead to the collapse of the principles that once made it great.

I do kind of appreciate this being called out

Ok but like.... me, you, the girlypops and an off the grid farm full of goats and shared produce does in fact sound like a vibe I'd be down to pursue.

The weird sad irony of joining a radicalized group to escape capitalism feels like it needs more lines

Has anyone watched the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives? It's definitely trash TV but I actually think it surprisingly does a really good job of showing how this kind of thinking separates people within their own in-group and becomes a way of breeding distrust internally to keep people from experiencing alternative perspectives. I also really just want to talk about this show because I need to know if Taylor stays with Dakota for the baby lol.

Just a small pleasant reminder that ethnic nationalism is distinctively different from shared ethnic cultural identities. A shared culture heritage, although it can and is perhaps often associated with historic ties to geographic locations has existed for most of humanity but the concept of a nation-state as well as the concept of national borders is something that is rather unique to modern history!!! And although there have definitely been ethnic clashes, empires, and war prior to the "start," of modern history, the systematic and unified understanding of blood as it pertains to a country is uniquely tied to the past few hundred years.

Ah yeah I spoke before I read the rest of the paragraph, but it seems the author is on a similar page about potentially subverting that expectation

This to me, feels like a perhaps skewed perception of community. I think there are fundamental shared values that create community -- like, perhaps the queer community assumes that those that are part of it will not discriminate against other queer people but it fails to understand the nuance of people's perceptions of what that means. After all, there are plenty of members of the queer community that identify as queer but have troubling opinions on who is queer or what counts as queer. There are transphobes and people that don't recognize bisexuality in queerness yet still choose to identify with the community. I don't think the phrase "As we all know," is intended to inspire groupthink or be a rallying cry for unanimity but I do think it is a means of creating an outgroup if not exclusively due to the Niavety of believing in a shared assumption without the understanding that assumptions are beholden to the nuance of the beholder's perspective.