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KURT VONNEGUT ON THE NEED FOR BUILDING EXTENDED FAMILIES
- Becoming a parent and engaging in the grueling work of caring for another human has brought me to the visceral realization that what this world is lacking — what we actually need most — is each other. It sounds hippie-ish and obvious, but as McKibben hints at, it’s going to become ever more serious and tangible. We are relational creatures designed... See more
from The Friendship Problem by Rosie Spinks
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- Over time our laws, mores, and ethics have slowly expanded the sphere of human empathy. Generally, humans originally identified themselves primarily via their families. The family clan was “us.” This declaration cast anyone outside of that intimacy as “other.” We had - and still have - different rules of behavior for those inside the circle of “us”... See more
from What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
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"It took us that long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
from The Sirens of Titan: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
One of the main reasons humans have been so successful, as Israeli researcher Yuval Noah Harari points out, is due to what is called “fictive kinship.” Most species hang out only with family. Everybody else is a potential enemy. Good ol’ Homo sapiens have been so successful because we’ve extended the definition of family by using mutually agreed up
... See morefrom Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker