I’m not LDS, but I’m super impressed with how Mormons manage a modern, useful, yet deeply visceral Becoming Adult ritual-process. I’m sure mileage varies, but it’s one of those things I have mentally bookmarked under “how to human better(?)”https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1058056317636497408 …
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I think the first step is admitting that secular culture is (largely) really, really bad at raising *adults*, and probably getting worse
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I suspect there’s actually a lot of room for play w/o theocracy. You see similar duty/achievement patterns in e.g. military families/cultures. I’m not sure what the healthiest version of this is, but I kinda want to make an even better one
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You see interesting and similar effects in countries with conscripted military service-- it's worth looking at Israel and South Korea to see this model applied secularly, although dramatically less humanitarian
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