Any family member who abuses fellow members is dealt with harshly because family is all. The clan cannot be threatened from within, and the head holds the power to punish or exile members for crimes against the family. People must get along and work out their problems, or else.
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These are idealized statements, obviously. No situation is perfect because humans are imperfect, we have bad days and greedy desires. But the extended family system has stood in nearly every culture in the world since the dawn of humankind. We are designed for this system.
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In a world where we shrink away from family to hide in one-room apartments with Netflix and memes, a world of desperate and fearful dating where we exchange fluids before names, with people smothered by crushing loneliness, how many would trade it to return to our natural system?
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This is what our ancestors surrendered in the quest for survival. Some gave it up willingly with the promise of better jobs in the city. Others lost their land during the Dust Bowl and were forced into factory jobs and urban ghettos where they forgot how to bond as a family.
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We live now with 100 years of shattered family bonds. Most will scoff at the above concepts as hopeless and impossible. “No family could love like that,” they’ll say. “No person could be trusted as head of a family to not exploit everyone beneath them.”
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We live in an entrenched system of generational attachment wounds where people have forgotten what love and intimacy even feel like. Many have never experienced intimacy with family. Most are lonely and cannot imagine how to quench that agonizing thirst.
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We must find or way back to the family estates. We must build new family systems and reconnect in large units. We must live together and nurture one another. We must prioritize staying together over the promise of greater pay elsewhere.
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Until we heal the family unit and rebuild these connections, the primal units we are designed to live within, our brains will recognize the unnatural setup of our isolated modern existence and log our very society as reason for constant anxiety and stress.
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It is kinda sad how the idea gives me anxiety. Ideally it would be nice, with several caveats, but everything has those. I think the problem is that families became self eroding.
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The biggest problem I see is "If you're suffering, you have so many people to notice" does not translate to "and therefore you get help". Often as not, that's a target above your head. You're bringing the rest of us down, you're just not appreciative, why can't you be more like-
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That’s exactly what happens in a broken society with shattered attachments, it’s true.
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My family was very close knit after my father's death. Big supporting circle of friends, too! They still chose (what they thought was) the path of least resistance when a conflict arose, and conspired to abuse.
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