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I’m not LDS, but I’m super impressed with how Mormons manage a modern, useful, yet deeply visceral Becoming Adult ritual-process. I’m sure mileage varies, but it’s one of those things I have mentally bookmarked under “how to human better(?)”https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1058056317636497408 …
I think the first step is admitting that secular culture is (largely) really, really bad at raising *adults*, and probably getting worse
I suspect there’s actually a lot of room for play w/o theocracy. You see similar duty/achievement patterns in e.g. military families/cultures. I’m not sure what the healthiest version of this is, but I kinda want to make an even better one
I think that secular culture has all the tools to do just fine, if we define adults as people who have emotional and cognitive proficiency. Psychological therapy can be very helpful and effective. Rituals etc are great, but can be secular no problem.
are you seriously trying to tell me buzzfeed quizzes on your hogwarts house aren’t good enough
And I thought I could not love you more, Mike
It can’t help that day to day life keeps requiring less and less actual human interaction with people outside our social and socio-economic circles
Have you read "Diamond Age"? It's about parents consciously trying to raise "interesting adults" and how it works out for the children. It even has a subplot about a Confucian bureaucrat trying to do it "at scale" https://amzn.to/2SDHVZe
The worst coming-of-age ritual in secular culture is the 21st birthday/legal drinking age birthday and I hate that one. Like alcoholism is bad and that type of rite of passage makes it worse.
Yep! Mistakes are inevitable, but there’s no good reason to glorify them. Ritual celebration of bad decisions is IMO a consequence of poorly-scheduled freedoms; rebellion is only growth if you’re unreasonably constrained
Reminds me of something I heard Sam Harris say, non-exact quote but basically: there’s no clear equivalent / alternative to a church for non-Christian people to get married in.
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