Great Podcast--Jason Blakely is an interesting teacher and articulates well difficult conceptual-maps with helpful ways to think about politics; as in the stories we tell ourselves both as persons and communities makes meaning and significance. My question is more for Blakely, and Blakely may have swiftly answered it, or at least bracketed it, when it was stated about identity politics that it sort of throws a wrench into the normal ways of politics. But what happens when a person's or communities' identity becomes most meaningful for them when it is formed from the negation of some other, as in I'm not them and that is primarily how I see myself--not like her or them or whatever. At some point there seems to be some type of regress. As the most bare example, two groups each define their significance primarily from not being like the other, as in my map means exactly this: not theirs. Or is this example I just stated a case of where the two people or groups being vulnerable with themselves and others about their stories might speak to Jason's point and help bridge make? Sure we all do it, but at what point does meaning making, story telling have its limits? Anyway, great episode btw, have more discussions with Blakely please.
A topic idea: discuss what you think about free will, whether you believe it exists or not. You might as well invite someone who's done some serious philosophising about this issue in the past.
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Great Podcast--Jason Blakely is an interesting teacher and articulates well difficult conceptual-maps with helpful ways to think about politics; as in the stories we tell ourselves both as persons and communities makes meaning and significance. My question is more for Blakely, and Blakely may have swiftly answered it, or at least bracketed it, when it was stated about identity politics that it sort of throws a wrench into the normal ways of politics. But what happens when a person's or communities' identity becomes most meaningful for them when it is formed from the negation of some other, as in I'm not them and that is primarily how I see myself--not like her or them or whatever. At some point there seems to be some type of regress. As the most bare example, two groups each define their significance primarily from not being like the other, as in my map means exactly this: not theirs. Or is this example I just stated a case of where the two people or groups being vulnerable with themselves and others about their stories might speak to Jason's point and help bridge make? Sure we all do it, but at what point does meaning making, story telling have its limits? Anyway, great episode btw, have more discussions with Blakely please.
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A topic idea: discuss what you think about free will, whether you believe it exists or not. You might as well invite someone who's done some serious philosophising about this issue in the past.