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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Replying to @eigenrobot
I'm lost here why is aaron swartz anyone's standard bearer he was kind of an idiot and he stole a bunch of shit
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Replying to @sgodofsk @eigenrobot
Because people disagree with the laws. Because they believe these institutions should be crushed. This is easy stuff.
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Why do you lionize people who subvert communism from the inside? Same reason.
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Replying to @orthonormalist @eigenrobot
because communism is bad, but intellectual property is good
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