generally seems like: things like free speech are sort of protected in the us but cps is a backdoor with incredible latitude kids are a lever for government control I expect this will only become more true over time and it will be ugly as hell
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if they can make a truancy charge stick because your seven year old is not showing up to zoom calls i think they can do just about anything the woke shit is tiresome but /this/ is legitimately terrifying to mehttps://twitter.com/AlecMacGillis/status/1295056026048356352?s=19 …
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Alec MacGillisVerified account @AlecMacGillisWhere we are at with remote learning: well-off families planning pods, low-income families having child-neglect cases opened against them for kids' failure to log on for virtual classes. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/15/metro/your-childs-no-show-virtual-school-you-may-get-call-states-foster-care-agency/ … pic.twitter.com/lbHTEZflmmShow this thread3 replies 15 retweets 133 likesShow this thread -
maybe thinking that a state thats not built around families must be fundamentally opposed to them stronger ties than law can dictate, unregulated, highly variegated v inconvenient a smart state would facilitate families as a source of strength most states are not smart
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idea: suppose states tend to be totalizing by nature then you might expect their chiefest enemies to be religion, families, and firms or guilds: the greatest historical bastions of nonpolitical power
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of these families are the strongest but outside of tribal areas that strength is only local firms and guilds have great flexibility and economic power, and are in a sense indispensable to the state in the end religions are a grave, grave danger when opposed to a state
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generally in the US all of these have been hollowed out religions are broadly fractured and mostly domesticated, their broader functions usurped by state welfare firms are incredibly tightly regulated and exist only by the forebearence of the state complete with commissars
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families have been hollowed out and at most socioeconomic levels mostly shattered as independent entities public school has replaced most vertical transmission of knowledge and norms
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especially looking at religion and families, seems like maybe once the secondary roles of a social institution are replaced by a state alternative, that institution is done for
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Contemplate this on the Tree of Woe
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