So you can discuss your weekly readings.
I’m still reading Moby Dic, currently halfway through, so far is great, though as English is not my native language It means I have to look up quite a bit in the dictionary to learn the “old timey” words, but I’m using it less now the more I learn, it also made me check up the Bible to find the biblical counterparts of the characters with biblical names, which is interesting.
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Last thing I read was The Communist Manifesto. Agreed with almost everything except the abolishment of private property.
It was a slog.
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I noped out of the Communist Manifesto on like the first page where they were like "you might ask 'why in the world are you trying to abolish the family', but hold on, we'll get to that". I was like "nah, maybe next time". I buy into the more modern EvoPsych line that you might see in Nicholas Christakis's Blueprint, where certain societal things CAN be done, but they require such ridiculously high costs that they're not going to scale well... and abolishing the nuclear family is just too hard. It's also why I think surrogate mothers should be legal, but will likely settle at "incredibly expensive", because the risk of running off with your baby is really high and it's never NOT going to be high, or else I think heads will start rolling. Don't frick with momma bear.
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I'm not saying that the "atomic family" or "nuclear family" is a GOOD idea, because I think living next door to your cousins and grandparents is based and tradpilled, and probably more in line with our evolutionary origins, but I'm saying that "see all these kids... these ALL are OUR kids. None of them is YOUR kid anymore" will be very expensive, and people will not want to do it at scales higher than 1000 people. Christakis mentions a few societies where that's kind of the norm, but they are also capped at around that size.
So a truly large communist state will have to be more like a massive network of many, many tiny communist states, if they are going to do the "no nuclear family" thing, but I also never finished reading the Communist Manifesto and don't know if they even cared whether it was possible to get people to agree to that.
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