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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ie, their actual behavior... or a least their grandparents/great grandparents, reveals a true preference for larger, more anonymous social groups to get away from oppressive patterns of community. And most of us now *wouldn't* go back to small towns. We just pretend we want to
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I am enjoying this discussion. Thank you all for having it.
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This is reminding me of a separate conversation I had with a friend about sexual habits, and how some women are called sluts while others are called prudes. And another, about the frustration of being expected to talk to people about your feelings, vs having no one to talk to
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I’m not saying people should go to small towns. I sure as hell wouldn’t, and I don’t pretend I want to. I want good relationships with good people. The ideal, with sex, and talking about feelings, and relationships, is to be able to choose what you want on your own terms
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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?