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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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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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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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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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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"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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"[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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"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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"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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Why were they so much worse off philosophically than ancient greeks?
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good taste is hard to come by ig
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