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Analysis of power and society, now and historically. Please don't get your ought all over my is.

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    Ben Landau-Taylor‏ @benlandautaylor 21 Dec 2019
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    You can learn a lot about a culture by reading their fiction and noticing what they take for granted. In honor of the season, let’s look at A Christmas Carol. 1/

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      2. Ben Landau-Taylor‏ @benlandautaylor 21 Dec 2019
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        The thing people overlook in A Christmas Carol is the depth of Scrooge and Marley’s friendship. Scrooge is this horrible old loner who everyone hates… except Marley, his business partner, who *comes back from the dead* for Scrooge. 2/

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      3. Ben Landau-Taylor‏ @benlandautaylor 21 Dec 2019
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        And they weren’t just business partners! They were extremely close! Scrooge is still torn up about Marley’s death seven years later! He was Marley’s “sole friend, and sole mourner”! 3/

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      4. Ben Landau-Taylor‏ @benlandautaylor 21 Dec 2019
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        This type of very close, lifelong friendship between colleagues might seem remarkable to us now, but Dickens *never once remarks on it*. It’s just taken for granted that of course a misanthropist like Scrooge has this transcendent friendship with his business partner. 4/

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      5. Ben Landau-Taylor‏ @benlandautaylor 21 Dec 2019
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        If A Christmas Carol were published today, the story would need to justify why Scrooge and Marley were so close. Or more likely, Marley’s role would be filled by e.g. Scrooge’s father rather than a colleague, since returning from the grave for your son makes sense to us. 5/

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      6. Ben Landau-Taylor‏ @benlandautaylor 21 Dec 2019
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        We can infer that relationships like these were relatively common when the story was published, not because Dickens depicts it, but because Dickens expects his audience to take it in stride without any background or development. This wouldn’t happen in a story today. 6/

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      7. Ben Landau-Taylor‏ @benlandautaylor 21 Dec 2019
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        It’s not that business partners today are *never* staunch lifelong friends. Rather, it’s that (1) this is much less common for us than it was in Dickens’s time, and (2) it’s not a socially recognized script for us like it was for them. 7/

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      8. Ben Landau-Taylor‏ @benlandautaylor 21 Dec 2019
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        (To be fair, a single story isn’t enough to be highly confident in an interpretation like this. I confirmed this in other British literature, and in letters between actual business partners. I’d guess this was a thing in Britain from maybe the mid-1700s to the late 1800s.) 8/

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      9. Ben Landau-Taylor‏ @benlandautaylor 21 Dec 2019
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        Ben Landau-Taylor Retweeted Samo Burja

        This thread was mostly about how to do anthropology through fiction, but for more on the role of friendship between business partners as a load-bearing social technology, check out Samo’s thread: https://twitter.com/SamoBurja/status/1109849875061960705 … 9/9

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        Samo Burja @SamoBurja
        Given that business partnerships are important for economic growth and that they inevitably are personal: How do you pace trust and emotional closeness of professional collaborations? There is a script for marriage and friendship, but don't know if there exists one for this.
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      2. Michael Shook‏ @mshook 21 Dec 2019
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        Bonjour, please find the unroll here: Thread by @benlandautaylor: You can learn a lot about a culture by reading their fiction and noticing what they take… https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1208499971420377088.html …. Enjoy :) 🤖

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