Chris PetrilliMy sister sent me this and boy do I feel this in my bones. My 50+ bones.
retech@petrillic I'm an X. When I was 21 I spoke with a Soc. prof & said our parents dissected every institution we had, laid open the corpse of society, tried to find answers to all of it. Which everyone should. But they did it when we were their children, in front of us, giving us the entire world at the earliest age humans had ever done it. But they never gave us any structure to replace it. Something we need to start with. The brightest kids with no direction & no rules left to fend for ourselves.
Bill Seitz
@r3t3ch @petrillic you can co-create new rules with a tribe, esp if you live close
@billseitz @petrillic I think it's deeper than just basics like don't be a dick to ppl. We have large long lasting structure as a base to jump from. It evolved to be that. Tearing it down was their goal. But they never asked why it was there & what purpose it served. You cannot give children the knowledge of old sages, the tools of mad scientists, the creativity of the arts, leave them alone, and expect them to generate a functioning society. If you do... well you get this shithole we're in now.
@r3t3ch @petrillic Chesterton's salad fork.
@r3t3ch @petrillic more seriously, what structures are you focusing on
@billseitz @petrillic Gov't, Social order/society, Religion. To be clear, I have never agreed with the way the presented to me & am 100% atheist. When hippies actively attacked those & showed us their flaws & reasons why we needed to change, that's wonderful. Not so sure it's wise to show 5yr olds, but the intent was good. But they never offered fuck all to replace it. Instead they became the sellouts they rallied against, in greater strength than ever before. We then, by teens, had to ask>>
@r3t3ch @petrillic how did your parents turn out otherwise?
@billseitz @petrillic One was a psychotic narcissist manifesting in Munchausen by Proxy, the other a stoic capitalist who tried to be curious about the world but was generally contemptible thinking everyone else was "just fuckin stupid". I know one is dead, the other I am unsure about.
@r3t3ch @petrillic that might be coloring your macro outlook a whole lot.
@billseitz @petrillic On some levels certainly. Realised it was and moved out at 17, never kept up with either of them. Saw no need. Granted I'm a nihilist. But I have yet to see any, even small, egalitarian structure work for more than a brief time. If there's one out there, it's cloaked to stay alive.
@r3t3ch @petrillic "egalitarian" might be a Fragile/brittle GameRule. .
@billseitz @petrillic Cool, so right back to the shithole we recreate ad infinitum. A perfectly closed loop. And Fermi wondered about this, what fools these mortals be.