It’s how we’re actually optimised to live, I believe. Nuclear families are an anomaly. There’s friction and conflict in in communalism, but also less depression, suicide, etc. Have y’all read Junger’s Tribe
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re: naturalistic fallacy, fair I wouldn’t say “14-15 = optimal regardless of context”, but generally I think it’s pretty clear that lots of people (most?) living in modern cities are lonelier and more isolated than they would prefer to be, & this is bad for health/wellbeing
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this is *exactly* backwards historically... the vast urban migrations of 19th and 20th centuries happened from small villages and towns... because people wanted to get the hell away from small community squalor (both material and psychological)
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Would you also say “no nature here, only politics” when making sense of how different amounts of human contact lead to different outcomes for young children?