by jriot on 2/18/22, 4:10 PM with 2 comments
by ericmay on 2/18/22, 4:30 PM
For example:
> ever been a time to really, truly reckon with the harm wrought by organizing our society around the married couple and the private household, it is now, two years into a pandemic that has killed nearly 1 million Americans.
Alternatively what are some additional harms done by not having nuclear families? Americans in particular experience an epidemic of loneliness. Divorce rates are high and many children fall to drugs and alcohol or crime with unstable families at home. Just as you can easily conjure up a conjecture about nuclear families and the problems wrought by them, anyone (including myself) can easily conjure up a conjecture about how not having nuclear families causes all sorts of problems. Why wouldn’t nuclear families be more collectivist anyway? Individuals would be harder for the state to group together and control versus families.
Also it's wild to be blaming or even associating COVID-19 mortality with families regardless of individuality.
by hobomatic on 2/18/22, 4:33 PM
It can't actually succeed though, because it doesn't agree with itself. At best it can help humanize the fringes. At worst, it will do the opposite because it tells the status quo that out of all of the multitudes of valid ways there are to be, theirs is the least valid.