Let's talk a bit about history. National, ethnic, religious identities used to be huge. They got slowly turned down after WW2, and by the 1970's there was a certain idea of a free-floating atomic individual who does not belong anywhere, has no group membership, and is nothing but being himself. Think Frank Zappa.
It kinda worked for straight white men and no one else, because 1) everybody treated them according to their perceived group identity anyway 2) they needed their group as a support group and safe space 3) actually maybe it did not work even for straight white men that well, because it can get lonely.
As a result, we got "women nationalism", "gay nationalism" "BIPOC nationalism". Note that these are subtly different from feminism in the Nussbaum sense or anti-racism in the Douglass sense. These can get... angrier, because they focus less on justice and more on a friend-enemy distinction. But the good news is that they are mellowing out right about now. Everybody got tired after 12 years of fighting.
Now the straight white guys are in wondering what the hell to do. They trying to form a tribe would still be perceived as dangerous, perhaps Nazi. And there are actual Nazis now and it would be cool not to be mistaken for them. I think no one figured it out yet, but there will be "coded tribes" here. For example, heavy metal or country or motorbike fandom.
You should also be honest and frank about founder worship in the US, The Apotheosis of Washington is a thing after all. Is the MAGA and tea party awakening not coming much from the same place but struggles to modernise and universal the experience in a way that strikes many groups as very distant from their aspirations.
It's more of a cult than a religion, because it's driven by cabals and charismatic individuals. There are no defined offices, and no organised formal rules.
(I hope it stays that way. I don't want political officers in every workplace...although come to think of it, HR is making the attempt.)
Let's talk a bit about history. National, ethnic, religious identities used to be huge. They got slowly turned down after WW2, and by the 1970's there was a certain idea of a free-floating atomic individual who does not belong anywhere, has no group membership, and is nothing but being himself. Think Frank Zappa.
It kinda worked for straight white men and no one else, because 1) everybody treated them according to their perceived group identity anyway 2) they needed their group as a support group and safe space 3) actually maybe it did not work even for straight white men that well, because it can get lonely.
As a result, we got "women nationalism", "gay nationalism" "BIPOC nationalism". Note that these are subtly different from feminism in the Nussbaum sense or anti-racism in the Douglass sense. These can get... angrier, because they focus less on justice and more on a friend-enemy distinction. But the good news is that they are mellowing out right about now. Everybody got tired after 12 years of fighting.
Now the straight white guys are in wondering what the hell to do. They trying to form a tribe would still be perceived as dangerous, perhaps Nazi. And there are actual Nazis now and it would be cool not to be mistaken for them. I think no one figured it out yet, but there will be "coded tribes" here. For example, heavy metal or country or motorbike fandom.
Didn’t women, black people and gays all start doing better in the 1970s?
You should also be honest and frank about founder worship in the US, The Apotheosis of Washington is a thing after all. Is the MAGA and tea party awakening not coming much from the same place but struggles to modernise and universal the experience in a way that strikes many groups as very distant from their aspirations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apotheosis_of_Washington
It's more of a cult than a religion, because it's driven by cabals and charismatic individuals. There are no defined offices, and no organised formal rules.
(I hope it stays that way. I don't want political officers in every workplace...although come to think of it, HR is making the attempt.)