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The fatalism on display in these replies is terrible.
If only the average parent acted with just 1% more agency.
My kids are still little but is it not possible to just not give your kids smartphones? I ask that genuinely, because our plan is to have a family living room PC and dumbphones for the kids once theyre old enough to be out and about by themselves, they can buy a smartphone once they're 18 and have the money for it. Is that unrealistic? Is it really that bad?
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The people you need to get close with are "the woods" everyone keeps wanting to run off to.
Stop thinking about the dysfunctions you need to get away from (there's no getting away from it, it's everywhere) & start thinking about the people you need to get close to
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Star Wars is meant for kids and young adults, but if there is a lesson in it for the "grown-ups" and the moral powers-that-be it is this:
Anakin's grievances are real and his mistreatment by the Council is very real. Many times he and those who care about him attempt to address these grievances through the proper channels, but Qui-Gon is killed, Anakin is rebuffed, and Obi-Wan always has something a bit more important to do that takes him far away.
Only one authority figure ever listens to Anakin, tells Anakin constantly how much he admires and respects him, and promises to give Anakin everything he wants. Even still Anakin does not fall for his tricks right away. Palpatine has some twenty years to groom Anakin and yet his reaction upon learning his true identity is to immediately turn him over.
But Sidious knows that once again Anakin will get no respect or consideration for this. In the end, for the thousandth time, the Jedi refuse to listen to him, and he finally declares for the Dark Side.
No doubt all our Very Respectable Conservatives are fully aware of the existence of our own Palpatines out there in the politics of the West. In fact, fortunately, our enemies - both the Left-Liberals of the decaying Republic, and the power-hungry amoral radicals - are far less intelligent and charismatic.
And yet our Jedi are even more scornful and dismissive of their Anakins.
If you continue to insist on being Yoda, Windu, and the rest of the big-headed old men, you WILL lose. And you will have nobody to blame but yourselves. To carry on the childish conceit, we need Qui-Gon Jinn. We need someone to buy demoralized, angry boys out of slavery, not to berate them and tell them they serve the Dark Side. Tell them that enough, and they will.
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American prepping is very individualistic
It’s best understood as yet another form of consumer identity
As a result, I don’t take it seriously.
Real prepping begins when you do it the Lindy way: forming a tribe
No one survives in the waste as an individual.
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I published a piece on this just today. The good life transcends filling our evenings and weekends with atomizing extracurriculars for kids or even just sitting at home together.
Expand the definition of family time to mean "time my family spends with other families".
The disappearance of “third spaces” that are neither home nor work, coupled with stigma against married couples with kids spending evenings or weekends outside the home, has created a society of “family pods” that don’t intermingle nearly enough. Children benefit from their parents’ wide friend network. They have more possible godparents or future mentors/connections to jobs, people to take them to school when parents are sick, or many many other advantages. people in the early to mid 1900s simply had better social sense and civic/community mindedness than people now. Not everything translates to an internet analogue, including but not limited to socialization and community for your family.
Michael Perrone retweeted
The disappearance of “third spaces” that are neither home nor work, coupled with stigma against married couples with kids spending evenings or weekends outside the home, has created a society of “family pods” that don’t intermingle nearly enough. Children benefit from their parents’ wide friend network. They have more possible godparents or future mentors/connections to jobs, people to take them to school when parents are sick, or many many other advantages. people in the early to mid 1900s simply had better social sense and civic/community mindedness than people now. Not everything translates to an internet analogue, including but not limited to socialization and community for your family.
I'm sorry but this is so fucking lame. Your grandparents partied. Your grandparents hosted, they went to bars, they did shit. They didnt sit around and pride themselves for spending all of their free time staring at their children and mowing the lawn. Get the fuck out of your house. Take your wife out for a drink and listen to some live music. Have a conversation with someone at the bar. Go to a hockey game with your college buddies. Youre not somehow more mature for being homebound. Get a life.
Michael Perrone retweeted
"Your Grandparents Partied."
I'm sorry but this is so fucking lame. Your grandparents partied. Your grandparents hosted, they went to bars, they did shit. They didnt sit around and pride themselves for spending all of their free time staring at their children and mowing the lawn. Get the fuck out of your house. Take your wife out for a drink and listen to some live music. Have a conversation with someone at the bar. Go to a hockey game with your college buddies. Youre not somehow more mature for being homebound. Get a life.
Michael Perrone retweeted
My grandfather, a newspaper publisher, had a seriously full social itinerary
During the week, he always ate breakfast at the downtown diner. This was partly for business and networking
Then he went out for or hosted 3-4 dinner parties a week
This is an intense pace of socializing for today. I don’t know anyone who does this consistently. But it wasn’t really out of the ordinary at the time
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The modern home has not functioned as a home for 100+ years. It's essentially become a refueling station for corporate labor and a theater for digital entertainment.
The husband really only spends time there to sleep & eat before getting up each workday and spending 40, 50, 0r 60 hours a week working for a stranger’s business.
The wife collapses there after running errands to feed the consumer machine and dropping off and picking up the kids from government subsidized schools and daycares.
The children sit in dark bedrooms with glowing screens, being discipled by influencers and algorithms that hate their heritage, their faith, and their family.
No food is grown. No timber is cut. No books are written. No livestock is cared for. No hammers are swung. No trades are taught.
You bought a two-thousand-square-foot dormitory and theater and called it the American Dream.
Tear down the facade.
Turn the home back into a factory of life and rebuild that which was lost.
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You can't get fraternity by paying for it, or ethnogenesis by selecting people from a checklist
Fictive kinship comes from a shared history of bold action - we can only find our friends in extremis
(recording, no paywall, link below)
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He’s right and both the identitarian left and the reactionary right are in denial about this. The only people making it out of modernity are those not seeking the fallback of pre-determined ‘group identity.’ Group belonging is still necessary, but it will look different than before and a radical, new understanding of ‘friendship’ is the only way forward.
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Those who recognize Zion as unfinished see its absence as a serious spiritual problem. Those who have redefined Zion to encompass ordinary religious life see no absence at all. Nothing needs to change when the destination has been redefined as where we already stand.
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