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mopinko

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1. i blame a lot of troubles of our time on levittown.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Mon Feb 10, 2020, 11:00 AM

Feb 2020

and comedians who told MIL jokes.

grandmothers made us the animals we are. blocking them out was a bad idea.
then when we expanded beyond clan, we flourished. but we seem to suck at all that now.

i think we are experiencing a new burst of human evolution right now. i am not hopeful.

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David Brooks: The nuclear family was never going to last [View all] Recursion Feb 2020 OP

i blame a lot of troubles of our time on levittown. mopinko Feb 2020 #1

Then you haven't met my MIL. Mersky Feb 2020 #2

i grew up in the golden age of misogynist comedy. take my wife, please. mopinko Feb 2020 #4

I hear you about culturally ingrained misogyny, etc. Mersky Feb 2020 #5

Book recommendation: Collimator Feb 2020 #6

it's in our genes, imho. mopinko Feb 2020 #7

"I can trade you in for two twenty year olds"; can't forget that oldie appalachiablue Apr 2020 #11

A lot of it was urbanization. And prosperity. Igel Feb 2020 #8

This is a great piece! I'm printing it out right now. hedda_foil Feb 2020 #3

K & R Celerity Apr 2020 #9

In general I think Brooks has gone a bit overboard here. Nuclear appalachiablue Apr 2020 #10

The social historians I've read disagree with you Recursion Apr 2020 #12

Brooks is light on the economics of why there were many nuclear appalachiablue Apr 2020 #13

Real wages are much higher than at any point in the 1950s, and poverty much lower Recursion Apr 2020 #15

My mother's parents hailed from Alabama farm families. Aristus Apr 2020 #14