@QiaochuYuan I kinda do
@QiaochuYuan More seriously I don’t think parents had warmer relationships with their kids, or husbands with wives, decades or centuries ago.
Friendships might have been easier to maintain in communitarian societies, but also often less intimate & more rote.
Friendships might have been easier to maintain in communitarian societies, but also often less intimate & more rote.
@QiaochuYuan And the omnipresence of busybodies horrifies me.
Read Rabbit, Run by John Updike. It captures the horror of small-town life where you have no privacy ever and you can’t do anything the neighbors disapprove of.
Read Rabbit, Run by John Updike. It captures the horror of small-town life where you have no privacy ever and you can’t do anything the neighbors disapprove of.
@QiaochuYuan As a woman and some-kind-of-not-neurotypical, being able to have friends I really connect with basically requires a.) the internet, and b.) the feminist concept that a woman can be alone nonsexually with a man.
@QiaochuYuan "Civilization is the process of setting man free from men", completely unironically.
The freedom to be *alone* and the freedom to *choose* your companions are two sides of the same coin, and you can only get that with "atomized" modernity.
The freedom to be *alone* and the freedom to *choose* your companions are two sides of the same coin, and you can only get that with "atomized" modernity.
@QiaochuYuan Atomized modernity: did you mean "young women can move to the city alone, earn their own money, and have sex with people not chosen by their fathers?"
This appliance means freedom.
This appliance means freedom.
@QiaochuYuan This appliance means you have HEARD of the big city, women working, women marrying for love.
Children going to school and being taken to the doctor and being treated kindly by their parents.
Kirk and Uhura kissing.
TV's not all good, but there's some important good stuff.
Children going to school and being taken to the doctor and being treated kindly by their parents.
Kirk and Uhura kissing.
TV's not all good, but there's some important good stuff.
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