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When it comes to relationships, our shallow counter-culture focuses on quantity (monogamy vs polyamory) while presupposing an essentially modern quality of companionship. A true counter-culture would take seriously the qualitative possibilities within monogamy itself — where is- Discussed this with my grandma today. Her analysis is that everyone seems to be much more busy nowadays than before, mostly because both spouses now have to work to support the familyThis was a big culture shock when we moved to the UK, coming from Lesotho and Pakistan where you'd visit people unannounced and they would be happy to see you and ready to host you with tea and snacks, if not a meal From what I hear, this is sadly going away even in those places
- Not showing chapters titles in Audible is insane even by Amazon’s design standards. Gets me every time
- This was a big culture shock when we moved to the UK, coming from Lesotho and Pakistan where you'd visit people unannounced and they would be happy to see you and ready to host you with tea and snacks, if not a meal From what I hear, this is sadly going away even in those placesChristian Bale says he hated moving to L.A. because people expected you to call before visiting "I hated it for the first year or two. Coming from a walking culture, I didn't know what to do." "I'd just roll up to people's houses, knock on the door, and say, 'Hey, how you
