Have you noticed that almost every time you log on any social media site, you will run into evidence of some person you know or have heard about have relationship issues. These range from ruinous divorces and serious breakups to simple ghosting and all other sorts of relationship drama. And these issues are not restricted to relationships with a sexual component. We all know tons of people with no real connection to their parents, siblings etc other than sporadic phone calls, texts or family gatherings. Even our popular culture depicts such a dismal state of affairs as normal and every teenager in movies and shows always moves away from their home to attend university or later move across the country to get a job. The thing is- this “state of affairs” is not normal, never has been normal and is uncommon outside North America and some European countries. It gets more interesting when you realize that this type of behavior was not common even in those countries as late as the 1950s.
There is a popular joke in Russia: 'We fight against the same sex families, while half of the country is being brought up in same sex families.: grandma, mother, the kids.'
Your title refers of the "developed" countries, while the body of the article speaks of the West.
The West, the argument goes, has internalised the mindset of capitalism and neoliberalism. The rest of the world, seeing the West's collapse, would draw the right lessons.
One problem with that thinking is that drawing the right lessons from past history is difficult and rare.
There is a saying : the main thing that history can teach us is that people don't learn from history.
Another problem is that the West may have internalised those things as a spontaneous consequence of the so-called modern way of life, a way of life desired and emulated everywhere. How does one actually go extricating the good from the bad within that network of relationships?
Both the West, and China belong to what can be termed an industrial civilisation. All their differences are the differences like those between parent and child, between countries at different stages in the development of a single civilisation, which passes the course from gradual flowering and fruition, toward rot, in every part of the world.
The theorists of this view of the dynamics, relative to which "the crisis" filling the media headlines are mere epiphenomena, include Lewis Mumford, Jacques Ellul, Ivan Illich, and Ted Kaczynski.
Map of Europe : divorce rates per 100 marriages
https://landgeist.com/2021/05/03/divorce-rate-in-europe/
There is a popular joke in Russia: 'We fight against the same sex families, while half of the country is being brought up in same sex families.: grandma, mother, the kids.'
Your title refers of the "developed" countries, while the body of the article speaks of the West.
The West, the argument goes, has internalised the mindset of capitalism and neoliberalism. The rest of the world, seeing the West's collapse, would draw the right lessons.
One problem with that thinking is that drawing the right lessons from past history is difficult and rare.
There is a saying : the main thing that history can teach us is that people don't learn from history.
Another problem is that the West may have internalised those things as a spontaneous consequence of the so-called modern way of life, a way of life desired and emulated everywhere. How does one actually go extricating the good from the bad within that network of relationships?
Both the West, and China belong to what can be termed an industrial civilisation. All their differences are the differences like those between parent and child, between countries at different stages in the development of a single civilisation, which passes the course from gradual flowering and fruition, toward rot, in every part of the world.
The theorists of this view of the dynamics, relative to which "the crisis" filling the media headlines are mere epiphenomena, include Lewis Mumford, Jacques Ellul, Ivan Illich, and Ted Kaczynski.
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