Humans are tribalistic, and humans like security - something I think a lot of people are resistant to admit but it does overwhelmingly seem to be how we operate. What I find curious about your examples is that you're choosing your tribe but also your "world" - you are a left-learning person in a centrist world. Are you saying that it also helps your sense of security security to define what everyone else is too, so that you can define yourself in opposition to that? Or are you intentionally choosing your communities or echo-chambers so that you are only surrounded by centrists? If that community became more left-leaning, how would you change in response to it? (Maybe this is fodder for a follow up post...!)
Humans are tribalistic, and humans like security - something I think a lot of people are resistant to admit but it does overwhelmingly seem to be how we operate. What I find curious about your examples is that you're choosing your tribe but also your "world" - you are a left-learning person in a centrist world. Are you saying that it also helps your sense of security security to define what everyone else is too, so that you can define yourself in opposition to that? Or are you intentionally choosing your communities or echo-chambers so that you are only surrounded by centrists? If that community became more left-leaning, how would you change in response to it? (Maybe this is fodder for a follow up post...!)