Not endorsing the rest of the thread but this point is worth a thought.https://twitter.com/1renist/status/1005434819591987203 …
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tbh OP doesn't scan as talking about psychologically handling arrangements so much as "flourish" sounds economic, i.e. the norm being lionized is the one where every man gets a sex/housekeeping/childrearing slave assigned and this provides him a stable base to pursue wealth from
OP may well believe that, but on their face the words could mean that social pressure to pair off (in any kind of pair) in a long-term committed relationship helps to foster the material success of a nation through the emotional stability of its households.
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Having said that, I appreciate you pointing out how easily this kind of talk can grade over into ham-handed authoritarianism. The world is in quite a pickle.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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*nodnod* it just feels ass-backward to me. under circumstances of impoverishment we formed pairbonds and stuck with them even when they fucking sucked, to survive. so now that we're not so impoverished we need to... act as though we were, because the norm was just so great?
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Though we carry our brutality within us, always ready to go. Side note: the gig economy has replaced one sort of developed-world brutality with another. Maybe better angels and all that, okay, but still
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