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- Never before in history have so many people been under the gaze of so many strangers. Humans evolved in small groups, defined by kinship: those we knew, knew us. And our imaginative capabilities allowed us to know strangers—kings and queens, heroes of legend, gods above—all manner of at least partly mythic personalities to whom we may have felt as ... See more
from On the Internet, We’re Always Famous by Chris Hayes
Alex Wittenberg and added
H]uman beings need all the relatives they can get–as possible donors or receivers not necessarily of love, but of common decency.
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When we were children in Indianapolis, Indiana, it appeared that we would always have an extended family of genuine relatives there. Our parents and grandparents, after all, had grown up there with shoals of siblingsfrom KURT VONNEGUT ON THE NEED FOR BUILDING EXTENDED FAMILIES by Austin Kleon
Leo Guinan added
Extended Family is important. Why not choose the extended family we bring in?
By some estimates, China’s population increased threefold between 1723 and 1796 under K’ang-hsi’s successors. There was a large increase in the area under cultivation, which may have doubled between 1650 and 1800.
from After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000 by John Darwin