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Re:What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? by paulddraper on Thursday June 01, 2023 @01:13PM (#36154227)
Someday, maybe we'll figure out that maybe age-old institutions -- marriages, families, churches, communities, nations -- have irreplaceable roles for the well-being of humanity.
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Re:What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? by umeshunni on Thursday June 01, 2023 @07:19PM (#36158783)
agree with most of those, but nations are a relatively new concept. Till 100-200 years ago in most regions, people had little loyalty to the concept of a nation. They were more loyal to their tribe, religion etc
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Re:What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? by paulddraper on Thursday June 01, 2023 @07:30PM (#36158877)
More like 300-400 years, but sure.

You can see it as the modern extension of the tribe (lingual dialect, culture, religion), but over a greater area due to homogenization.

(Though perhaps we have gone too far in that respect...the USA in particular is a very large country relative to its diversity.)

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Re:What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? by CatWChainsaw on Monday June 05, 2023 @08:40AM (#36195387)
We'll probably collapse first.
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