This type of error is fundamentally about mistaking the conventional for the ultimate. This is among the most dangerous of spiritual mistakes because what is effectively happening here is that one is locking himself in a mental prison and then brainwashing himself into believing he is free. In this case he has fully bought into a wrong view and has total confidence in it thereby making it virtually impossible to correct the view. It is so dangerous because we cannot hope to make progress on the path if we ignore humility and remain convinced we already know the way.

So, to be clear, identity in the context of one's unique particularity/form is not what Buddhism is deconstructing. Identity in the context of mental attachment to the concept of your unique particularity/form is what Buddhism is deconstructing.

As a Buddhist practitioner, I still see identity in this particular understanding to be very important. I see it as an exoteric, conventional level understanding that is used as a way to navigate in and interact with the world.

People are unique, and it is through that uniqueness that they interface with reality. To absolutely negate this as some interpretations of Buddhism do is, in my opinion, unskillful in the context of upaya and counter to the Buddhist Doctrine of Two Truths.

What we should do is see identity as a tool. It is merely the set of characteristics by which a person or thing is made recognizable or known and a fact of conventional reality. If a Bodhisattva is going to be effective operating in the world then it makes sense to utilize all of the tools at his disposal.

In the end, there should be no issue reconciling the merits of why identity is seen to be important with the merits of why Buddhism deconstructs it. It is simply a matter of the former relating to the exoteric level while the latter relates to the esoteric level.

I'd say this is the defining picture for working class and rural Whites in America.

Spooky Season has Begun. Let’s scare shit libs and unionists as we make our moves towards secession.

“Man is something that shall be overcome.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche

https://youtu.be/0imJtxaGAio

Absolute Chadfather

Don't sleep on this podcast episode, they hit a lot of good points

Great video from a channel that if you haven’t heard of him, well now you have heard of him. https://youtu.be/ZjQbCBrQEbU?si=fIBAF8JZs1C6XaId

Appalachia pride.
Being proud of one's roots and folk runs deep there.
There is also a strong growing Pagan / Ethnic folk faith movement.
Though the floods that the government of the US doesn't want anyone to know about have hurt the region, and they could use some help.