I thought my wrestling/start-up comparison was apt, but no one took it up. Wait for the book.
I've been thinking about this more, but don't have the energy right now to explore it more... but, I wonder if our "Hunger Games" world of everything is a fucking conflict tends to express itself as identity politics. WAIT hear me out...
I think it's great, fantastic even, that oppressed people are finding voice and asserting themselves. And honestly, the greatest practitioners of "identity politics" are the white supremacist and Nazi assholes. And...
if you view the world as a zero-sum game — my loss is someone else's gain, and vice-versa — it feeds an us-vs-them world view. When in reality...
we're all in this together. We either figure this shit out and work it out so everyone survives, or maybe even thrives. Or we all fight against each other forever and the planet and politics no longer work for anyone and we all perish separately.
I guess this is nothing particularly new, just another way to phrase the critique of neoliberalism.
