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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So, RobotFriend, there's an interesting book called Politics and Passion - Michael Walzer. It's a Communitarian critique of liberalism, and it deals with Dr. Walzer's looking for ethical alternatives to this complete dissolution.
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IMO the communitarians are onto something
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Yup! A lot of it's great Some of it is a little cringey when he tries backing stuff up with Studies gnosis and anecdote and techne work better here I think
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Super quick read
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I'll look into it. Throw it on the leaning stack of books.
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