Eric Schaetzle on The Matter with Things

There seems to be a focus here on moving away from a divisive "identity politics," which invokes the frame of good and bad identities, friends and foes, and instead moving toward something much more like a "values based activism" so we can have conversations about the shared values that are important to all of us, regardless of whatever our personal identity may be, conversations about the values that bind our families, communities, and our nation together (participation in the "evolution of value" per Zak Stein, which should call to mind "McGilchrist's Wager"). Sarah McBride, for example said "I think that a politics that is rooted in opposition to an enemy is fundamentally regressive. We can put forward an aspirational politics that isn’t defined by who we are against, but by what we are for and about who we can be. And I think that is a more successful path than an enemies based politics, which so often devolves to anger. You can have effective politics, and good politics, and better outcomes, with an aspirational politics, with a politics that isn’t just about what it’s opposed to, but about what it can build and who we can be." https://youtu.be/KlbNFsAGFRc?t=4624