..if our concerns of rejection and jealousy are so rooted in securing our private life from everyone else, it becomes so difficult to know how societies rooted in mutual aid and collective care are healthier for us. non-hierarchical romance to me seems like a natural result of healthy communal life

thank you. which is why, for me, it's so essential to deconstruct the connections between the privatization of property, disruption of communal norms, and the reasons insecurity occurs...

i always wonder why hedonism isn't called philosmutphy. seems like it'd be a win for everyone

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"Rapidly, we approach the final phase of the extension of [humanity]—the technological simulation of consciousness, when the creative process of knowing will" be the dumbest shit capitalists can come up with... or whatever Marshall McLuhan said.

been really feeling Relationship Anarchy but Juan-Carlos Pérez-Cortés lately. and a book by Nancy Cott, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation

sounds like compersion to me! idk who is the "authoritative voice" on compersion discourse (if that should even be a thing) but I'd imagine it also applies to situations where it's easier to have shared joy/relief