ackshually moving away from possessive language weakens the sacred bond between master and pupil and renders a ritual timeworn relationship archetype sterile and bureaucratic https://twitter.com/BMatB/status/1207554144174854144 …
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While general trends in society probably have not helped this /thinning/ of student-teacher relationships was probably a natural response to the decline of informal moral codes in the face of Administration and lawsuits I think about this essay a lot http://laurakipnis.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Sexual-Paranoia-Strikes-Academe.pdf …
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2. Child relationships with nonparental adults generally. Older people may be able to confirm that these were once common. Coaches, ministers, aunts and uncles, teachers, scoutmasters, neighbors; others?
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Today: kids have thick relationships with their parents and that's about it. Kids don't have freedom of movement until they get a car (and even that's rarer). Multigenerational homes are gone Every formal organization is paranoid about lawsuits
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3. Guest/host. This is super dead in formal terms (although having spent time hosting travelers this year I assure you it is powerful!) In any case you can view the Greek model as a template for a form of social bonding that we might have hadhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenia_(Greek) …
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Anyway I am thinking now that relationships with /people/ have been quite generally replaced by relationships with /institutions/ Which frankly is a pretty rotten trade-off
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Legal status aside institutions are not human they are entirely alien And they don't give a fuck about you except inasmuch as you benefit them And you don't mean anything to them Think an institution is gonna come to your funeral?
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Think an institution is capable of forgiveness?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz …
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We barely live in a society And less and less every day fin.
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This seems like a satisficing pressure problem that exists to some degree in any industry where you look closely these days... optics > substance. Always has been so or is this new??
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Its partly an issue of shitty excessive management When you have more data easy to get Goodharts law in all things
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