Case in point: myself. I am not materially different in my thoughts, emotions, mental state, attitudes, viewpoints, beliefs from the “self” I was at 18. I’m nearly 60 now. [So there are a some possibles here: 1. I'm an aberration (probable, though not in this reasoning or situation) in that my views were fully formed at 18 and I'm so inflexible that they've never changed one jot in the intervening 4 decades; 2. I'm SO flexible that I've simply munged myself with myself over those decades and don't see the changes in between; 3. I'm lying (believe me when I tell you that's not possible because it would be just a totally silly waste of time); 4. I'm deluded (always a possibility - of oneself, one doesn't know, does one?)]

Truthfully, I believe that extrapolating from what I know about myself (I really have not changed my basal life opinions since I was a late-teen), and even allowing for gender being a factor, it’s more than probable that Justice Alito is pretty firmly identified in his own psyche with the ideations of a group he joined even though he was leaving the “area” of its inception. And he’s kept that relationship over the years, using the association on applications for employment.

One doesn’t do that if one isn’t in full agreement with the stated ideals of such an association. Unless there’s something else one is receiving from such and associative maneuver: money, reknown, referentials….

It looks like its sole raison d’etre was to bemoan what its members viewed as being bad for the school, which was diversity. Am I incorrect?

This is how it appears. Odd, no?

And yes, he became a member the year he left, but it’s NOT an official organization that everybody becomes a part of. He had to join, and even after it had its reputation, he listed it in job applications.

I just think it’s a bit weird.