From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 10:38:32 MDT
In a message dated 4/8/2003 10:23:16 AM Central Standard Time,
lcorbin@tsoft.com writes: Okay, we have to distinguish the out of sort
feelings that people from extended family structures might feel as they
become less extended, and vice versa.
Lee,
That comment is valid but I think the reality goes much further. If I
look at the misgivings my wife and I had when we discovered what we were
letting ourselves in for when we accepted the inducements to become a "Modern
Middle-class Family" (lets use your term) then our feelings went much further
than simply being "out of sorts." Today having read Gatto I say if his
criticism is sustained then the modern middle class society and family is at
least mildly dysfunctional.
You also said, "What is germane to this discussion is which kind of
life is more of an ESS (evolutionarily stable strategy)."
I think determining which is the best ESS is what we need to be discussing.
However, I do want to emphasize that I am looking at an evolutionary society
not a static one. The problem with the southern middle class society was
that in many ways it was too static.
Do you have any basic list that you believe people need to read before
engaging the keyboard? <G> I will start with Gatto and de Soto.
Ron h.
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