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Baumeister's idea is that industrial revolution made women "obsolete" first, so motherhood was dreamed up as sacred purpose for them
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Hmm. So women as first part-time members of leisure society, which would make right-to-work feminism sort of reactionary
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yeah it's surprising the "cult of motherhood" works for 150 years! (he dates it to 1820 in England at least)
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I don't believe in leisure society for other reasons, but this is related to idea of neurasthenia ribbonfarm.com/2013/01/16/ete
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I suspect you know way more about it than I do. Am I correct?
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but it's definitely a low-cost palliation for whatever's wrong with us (whether it's falling from the peak of maslow or something else)
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There's I think a distinction between ritual and instrumental uses of drugs (as performance enhancers). Both are social tho
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When literal belief in religious agency was more widespread, the two might have been the same. Now they're not.
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