KURT VONNEGUT ON THE NEED FOR BUILDING EXTENDED FAMILIES
The family is the social unit God invented to fill up the world with representatives of his loving character. It’s a place for nurturing and developing babies until they’re mature enough to go out of the family as adults and to multiply his image in other surroundings.
John Townsend • Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No: When to Say Yes, When to Say No, to Take Control of Your Life
Kinship is so central to small-scale societies that it might legitimately be regarded as one of the main organising principles of the human social world.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
How can we create the social context needed for people to truly care about others outside of their extended family?
Erik Torenberg • Life Capital
Vonnegut: “What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”