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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Oct 2018

      Reading Albion's Seed The SSC post is accurate but doesn't do it justice, which is not a shortcoming of SSC Rather every page is just incredible and impossible to sufficiently excerpt I'm on the Puritans now and honestly they seem . . . great With a couple exceptions

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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Oct 2018

      To the extent the description of their folkways is accurate, the Puritans get a tremendously bad rap from their presentation in contemporary media The society sounds actually quite functional, prolly more than ours net Wonder how much of this necessarily trades off liberality

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Oct 2018

      They seem to do a great job supporting healthy marriage and family life in particular And not by forcing women into submission, they were quite progressive in their feminism, eg apparently if anything punished male fornicators more harshly than women

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        2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Oct 2018

          But their social/ecclesiastic/criminal systems (in that order) were (i) quite attentive to domestic strife, and (ii) operated primarily to end the strife, rather than to punish either partner per se

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Oct 2018

          I'm not sure something like this could be implemented without that level of social cohesion, sadly And maybe that social cohesion comes at the cost of substantial personal liberty Need to mull this further.

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        4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Oct 2018

          Example: guy refers to his wife as "[only a] servant" in front of neighbors Everyone is aghast at this verbal abuse He's hauled in front of a court, wife refuses to testify against him They fine him as punishment nevertheless!

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        5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Oct 2018

          Observations: 1. Very high standards for treatment of a spouse 2. Enforced by neighbors whom I imagine would come off as unbearable busybodies today 3. Courts intervene . . . wisely? Judiciously? Too much? Unsure but hard to imagine today

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        6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Oct 2018

          Anyway the next section describes how they execute a guy with one eye out of nowhere because a sow gave birth to a piglet with one eye and they assumed he fucked the sow so it's not all sunshine in New England

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        7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Oct 2018

          "A classic example [of Puritan onomastics] was an unfortunate young woman named Fly-fornication Bull . . . who was made pregnant in the shop of a yeoman improbably named Goodman Woodman."

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        8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Oct 2018

          "[The idea of] the depravity of infants . . . led Puritans to conclude that the first and most urgent purpose of child rearing was what they called 'breaking of the will.'" nevermind i now hate the puritans

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        9. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 28 Oct 2018

          "The New England Way was distinguished by its exceptional austerity . . . It claimed to be a religion without ritual, but in fact it replaced one set of rituals with another." Puritanism, the first Brutalist religion and I mean that to denigrate both

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        10. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 28 Oct 2018

          "From the outside, [Puritan churches] made a grim appearance. The walls were rough, unpainted clapboards . . . The interiors were very plain . . . the congregation sat before the pulpit on backless benches." OG Brutalism

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        11. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 28 Oct 2018

          "An important part of every service was a ritual of purification. Members of the Congregation . . . were compelled to rise and 'take shame upon themselves' . . . Occasionally, they were compelled literally to crawl before the congregation." folkways endure

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        12. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 28 Oct 2018

          Magic was verboten but apparently giant creepy anti-Devil apotropaic stone carvings were finepic.twitter.com/188g26CaW4

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        13. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 28 Oct 2018

          Along with its intense religiosity and social control New England was by far the best-educated region which should give you pause if you think schooling is generally likely to result in some kind of liberal free-thinking

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        14. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 28 Oct 2018

          Puritans also established the first US public schools, probably the blackest mark on their record

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        15. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 28 Oct 2018

          "Sexual intercourse was taboo on the Lord's Day. The Puritans believed that children were born on the same day of the week as when they had been conceived. Unlucky infants who entered the world on the Sabbath were sometimes denied baptism."

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        16. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 28 Oct 2018

          "Throughout the Western world in the seventeenth century . . . twice as many conceptions occurred in the peak month of April as in the summer months." Woh (this pattern was absent in New England)

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        17. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 28 Oct 2018

          someone is going to write a book like this about us in 350 years and it is going to be utterly savage

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        18. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 28 Oct 2018

          Got to the bit I was interested in re: treatment of the indigent "Chronic unemployment was a major problem . . . Most towns looked after their own; elderly residents were treated with decency, respect, and compassion." Towns had a dole of bread, butter, and coal. BUT

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        19. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 28 Oct 2018

          "The vagrant poor were treated with great brutality. Pregnant women were expelled so their newborns would not become a charge upon the town. . . . In Essex, some of these vagrants were sent to . . . the dark dungeons of Colchester Castle."

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        20. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 28 Oct 2018

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          Note the above is about East Anglia but still gets at my wondering from earlierhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1056539690810011648?s=19 …

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          Been jumping between HRE, classical Greece, and the colonies lately Very interested in comparative folkways especially And thinking about how urbanization transmutes poverty Do rural communities and maybe especially agrarian societies handle it better, socially?
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        21. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 28 Oct 2018

          New England itself told nobles (politely) to get fucked when they demanded hereditary offices It also barred poor English from entry, BUT "For town poor, [charity] went beyond the minimum. In Salem, one man was [put in stocks] for being uncharitable to a poor man in distress."pic.twitter.com/IspNOzkiaP

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        22. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 28 Oct 2018

          "There were strict rules of deference in this society . . . Travelers as late as the early 19C expressed astonishment at the sight of New England children who turned and bowed at the edge of the highway when their 'betters' rode by." OK see this is how you get Andrew Jackson

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        23. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 28 Oct 2018

          ". . . individual order coexisted with an institutional savagery that appeared in the burning of rebellious servants, the maiming of political dissenters, the hanging of Quakers, the execution of witches, and the crushing to death with heavy stones of [Giles Corey]."

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        24. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 29 Oct 2018

          "In Massachusetts towns, most adults were prosecuted at least once for criminal offenses against order--commonly small Sabbath violations, minor cases of disturbing the peace, sexual offenses, idleness, lying, domestic disorder, or drunkenness." fuuuuuuuuuuuuck this place

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        25. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 29 Oct 2018

          fear the Maenads of Marbleheadpic.twitter.com/h6VyP2E6m4

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        26. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 29 Oct 2018

          "Massachusetts recognized 13 capital crimes in 1648: witchcraft, idolatry, blasphemy, homicide, rape, adultery, bestiality, sodomy, false witness with intent to take life, and a child of 16 or older who was a 'stubborn' or 'rebellious' son, or who 'smote' or 'cursed' a parent."

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        27. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 29 Oct 2018

          Those all got death by hanging. Worse was punishment for the forteenth capital crime, petty treason, the killing of a master by a servant. Two people, both female black slaves natch, were burned at the stake for this.

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        28. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 29 Oct 2018

          "Next to hanging . . . were punishments of maiming--the slitting of nostrils, the amputation of ears, the branding of the face or hands . . . Quaker women were [stripped and carried town to town to be whipped bloody] before the horrified townsmen of Salisbury" rescued them."

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        29. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 29 Oct 2018

          In New England, "'liberty' often described something which belonged not to an individual but to an entire community . . . 'publick liberty' as it was sometimes called was thought to be consistent with close restraints upon individuals."

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        30. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 29 Oct 2018

          "Collective liberty was also expressed in many bizarre obligations . . . Eastham's town meeting ordered that no single man could marry until he had killed six blackbirds or three crows. Every town book contained many such rules."

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        31. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 29 Oct 2018

          "The laws . . . granted some liberties to all men, others to all free men, and a few only to gentlemen . . . 'any man equal to a gentleman' was granted liberty of not to be punished by whipping 'unless his crime be very shameful and his course of life vicious and profligate.'"

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