Source: The Findings Substack
by Paul Rosenberg
“Once we see ourselves as part of a group, we callously judge outsiders and rally to the cause of foolish insiders. Have you not noticed this in yourself? Once we see ourselves as part of a political whatever, part of a social whatever … it begins tainting what we think and feel. Left to continue, it poisons us against other identities. I’m not talking about simple, cooperative groups, mind you: those we feel free to jump in and out of; there’s not much identification involved. In practice, identification produces a free-for-all, each identity battling the others for whatever can be fought over.” (01/13/26)