Mar 23, 2020, 3:29 PM
by Gearóid Walsh
It’s sort of like the masculine adolescence period before the arising of paternal feelings for the commons. But there is some feminine baked in there too.
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Naive true belief in whatever social myth of the given one grows up with ->
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Individualist, anarchist rebellion, criticism of authoritarianism ->
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Paternalistic reconstruction and recovery of all the above, engagement with it despite its pitfalls (revealed through the anarchist “thought experiment”)
We can allow people their developmental phase but we need elders to limit the externalities and snap people out of it as quickly as possible.