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Rob Henderson's article about luxury beliefs among the upper class has a lot of the same ideas about the cringey-ness of the rich, and the inventions of "technologies" that their decadence affords them.
For some reason it seems obvious that the ideal primary care takers for a child are its mother and father because they will be biologically motivated to care and love for their offspring. Don't all cultures take for granted the idea of a mother and father as core archetypes? So is it right to think of this configuration as one option of among many? Or one that, by and large, is most biologically and evolutionarily successful?
Maybe what would be a good corrective, are families existing in close knit, multigenerational tribes rather than the isolated nuclear family that modern society seems to incentivize.
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Isn't polyamory a socio-cultural technology then?
Absolutely! As is more or less stated in the piece. But a far less societally condoned or supported one.
“Something something Max Weber”, absolute crime to hide your best point at the end
Rob Henderson's article about luxury beliefs among the upper class has a lot of the same ideas about the cringey-ness of the rich, and the inventions of "technologies" that their decadence affords them.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/luxury-beliefs-that-only-the-privileged-can-afford-7f6b8a16?st=xraplqj2ey426wg&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink&fbclid=IwAR1rJ7uVHSJLkOB9GRc14fLx6BwsrlMESDJI7svTpgMcc4kXZ03fru1jO0A
For some reason it seems obvious that the ideal primary care takers for a child are its mother and father because they will be biologically motivated to care and love for their offspring. Don't all cultures take for granted the idea of a mother and father as core archetypes? So is it right to think of this configuration as one option of among many? Or one that, by and large, is most biologically and evolutionarily successful?
Maybe what would be a good corrective, are families existing in close knit, multigenerational tribes rather than the isolated nuclear family that modern society seems to incentivize.
"All cultures" certainly do not take mother and father as core archetypes, especially not in the narrow nuclear family caregiving sense that we do
Maybe not all, but most cultures recognise specified social roles of mother and father, even those that are more collectivist.