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Dec 21, 2019 23 tweets 3 min read Read on X
ackshually moving away from possessive language weakens the sacred bond between master and pupil and renders a ritual timeworn relationship archetype sterile and bureaucratic
im 100% unironic
you think Plato wouldve stood for this shit
God I'm still mad about this shit

"We need to move away from possessive language in the family.

My son/daughter --> a juvenile in a domestic unit I participate in

My wife --> a female member of the polycule I attend"

YA DID IT YOU DONT OWN ANYTHING HAPPY NOW
THE YEAR IS 2078

Perfect individual social liberty has been achieved

No one owns anyone else anymore

Everyone sleeps and dies alone
Relationship archetypes are Actually Good

Even when it's an asymmetric relationship

Especially then, probably

These seem to have been almost wholly dissolved. Only the parent/child bond struggles on

Barely

Here are some fun examples
1. Master/pupil.

Old varient: master taught the pupil daily; was involved and invested in his/her success; pupil worked in master's lab/atelier/whatever, shared meals with master, given parting gifts at graduation

Today: relationships are passing, regulated, superficial
When TAships were being handed out my first year as a PhD student, the grad director got us together and warned us that we should put exactly as much time into teaching as would let us get student ratings sufficient to get funding next quarter. Anything more was career suicide.
With their extra time Profs can publish more empty calorie study that wont advance anything other than their tenure review

Be real professors you know this to be true

How many bullshit filler papers have you written
While general trends in society probably have not helped this /thinning/ of student-teacher relationships was probably a natural response to the decline of informal moral codes in the face of Administration and lawsuits

I think about this essay a lot laurakipnis.com/wp-content/upl…
2. Child relationships with nonparental adults generally.

Older people may be able to confirm that these were once common.

Coaches, ministers, aunts and uncles, teachers, scoutmasters, neighbors; others?
Today: kids have thick relationships with their parents and that's about it.

Kids don't have freedom of movement until they get a car (and even that's rarer).

Multigenerational homes are gone

Every formal organization is paranoid about lawsuits
3. Guest/host.

This is super dead in formal terms (although having spent time hosting travelers this year I assure you it is powerful!)

In any case you can view the Greek model as a template for a form of social bonding that we might have had en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenia_(Gr…
Anyway

I am thinking now that relationships with /people/ have been quite generally replaced by relationships with /institutions/

Which frankly is a pretty rotten trade-off
Legal status aside institutions are not human they are entirely alien

And they don't give a fuck about you except inasmuch as you benefit them

And you don't mean anything to them

Think an institution is gonna come to your funeral?
Think an institution is capable of forgiveness?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swa…
We barely live in a society

And less and less every day

fin.
@AlexGodofsky @sgodofsk @orthonormalist actually only steevens
@lobotobots Super quick read
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@nicestnisus @RemindMe_OfThis emailed it to myself ty 😊
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as long as we're sending insane ideas to @JDVance

does the federal government have to enforce laws everywhere or can it announce it won't?

because one funny thing the administration could do would be to deprioritize the enforcement of most federal laws in sanctuary states
>“congrats, california, you're now libertarian af. no OSHA, no IRS audits, no EPA. enjoy.”

it’d be legally coherent and politically thermonuclear. which means someone will definitely try it. Image
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hmmm sure ok i'll bite

the rheinweisenlager don't seem that bad tbh

i havent looked at the wikipedia page and wont, just going to attach some commentary and notes on context
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the camps were run by the US, apparently, and that's important
during the closing months of the war absolutely insane numbers of encircled and overwhelmed german soldiers surrendered . . . in the west

less so in the east, where they were more inclined to fight to the death against the red army
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no one except lord myles has "adventures" when they travel

you are staying at a hotel, paying large sums of money to have a far worse experience than you could have in your own home and a far softer experience than you could have by spending a weekend in jail
"i love to Travel" why have you failed to establish your home as a place of serenity and joy, to the extent that you feel psychically uncomfortable there and strive to get away from your life whenever you can, viewing it as the highest good?

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