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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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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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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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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The law required two witnesses to an act to deliver a capital sentence Here the man's forced and recanted confession was the first witness For the second they dragged the sow into the courtroom
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