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What if you don't have a family? In Brave New World there are no families. Technology plus social indoctrination have eliminated the need and desire for them.
by geomark 5y ago
What if you don't have a family? In Brave New World there are no families. Technology plus social indoctrination have eliminated the need and desire for them.
- rorykoehler 5y agoThat's a hard pass from me. I rather we didn't use Brave New World and 1984 as guides on how to build the future.
- geomark 5y agoSame for me. But of course that is because we have been conditioned to feel that way, isn't it?
- elbear 5y agoSure, but that's not something people feel comfortable hearing, judging by your downvotes.
- rorykoehler 5y agoIt's just not true. We're not robots.
- rorykoehler 5y agoIt's more nature than nurture. Babies died in a Romanian orphanage because they were only fed and diaper changed and not held for example. I can't find the source right now but I did find this https://www.livescience.com/21778-early-neglect-alters-kids-brains.html https://www.livescience.com/21778-early-neglect-alters-kids-...
- a2tech 5y agoA partner, of both the sexual and emotional variety, is far more satisfying than any random sexual hookup. Its the bedrock foundation of my life. Some sort of short lived satisfaction from hooking up with a random doesn't hold a candle to what we have. I'm not religious, we don't have kids, and we've been together for almost 20 years.