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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoDescolonización del patrimonio en Puerto Rico con Rafael Capó García y Javier Arbona-Homar • Sur-Urbano2026-07-03T22:56:24+00:00
https://open.spotify.com/episode/53hnMibTVpbKx7C0OfvhAi
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https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/06/a-resurgence-of-educational-localism-a-review-of-skipping-school/
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https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/06/in-defense-of-our-country-on-the-need-to-resist-ai-and-ai-data-centers/
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https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/tolstoy-and-the-illusion-of-inevitability
robertogreco“Traveler, there is no road. The road is made by walking.” —Antonio Machado
Machado’s famous line suggests that the future does not exist in advance, waiting to be discovered, but comes into being through a choice among possible actions. Many possibilities exist at any given moment. The one that becomes actual depends on coincidences and chances as well as choices, all producing events whose significance emerges only as they unfold.
That, as it happens, is also Leo Tolstoy’s argument in War and Peace. In the book’s battle scenes, plans dissolve into confusion, causes multiply beyond reckoning, and outcomes hinge on fleeting, unrepeatable moments. On the eve of the Battle of Borodino, the novel’s hero, Prince Andrei, reflects that what lies ahead is not a determinate sequence but “a hundred million chances…decided on the instant.” What matters is less the perfection of a plan and more the ability to respond to what no plan could anticipate, by means of what Tolstoy calls “alertness.”
For Tolstoy, this is a feature not of war alone but of reality in general. History, far from representing the execution of a grand design, is rather the result of countless interacting elements, each shaping and reshaping what can happen next. New possibilities are always emerging as earlier ones are left unrealized. Life more closely resembles an evolving system than a solved equation. Events are contingent in Aristotle’s sense of the term: They “can either be or not be.” After all, if things could only happen one way, human action would collapse into the mechanical execution of what was already implicit in the present. “If human life could be [entirely] governed by reason,” Tolstoy writes in the book’s epilogue, “the possibility of life is destroyed.”
And yet again and again, in our aspiration to a hard science allowing for prediction, we are drawn to deny this. That is one reason War and Peace has never lost its relevance.
The Recurring Dream of Certainty
Since the scientific revolution, Western thought has repeatedly returned to the hope that contingency might be an illusion. As Newton explained the baffling complexities of planetary motion by four simple laws, perhaps, many imagined, the same could be done for human affairs. Thinkers as diverse as Marx, Skinner, and Malinowski have shared this dream, with each promising, in his own way, to reveal necessity beneath apparent disorder.
Complexity, for such men, is conceived of as a surface phenomenon, concealing an underlying simplicity that, once uncovered, will render the future knowable. Pierre-Simon Laplace insisted that events are certain, not probable: In speaking of their probability, we are really speaking of the chances our guesses may be accurate, but the events themselves are certain. Time and again, the apparent contingency of events is presented as evidence of our own ignorance. If we knew enough, we would see that events could not have happened otherwise.
But there is another possibility: that contingency is real—that the world is not merely complicated but fundamentally generative, that new possibilities are not simply revealed over time but produced within it, through the interaction of elements that cannot be fully anticipated in advance.
This is the world Tolstoy describes, one where knowledge cannot precede action, only emerge through it.
Time and the Limits of Foresight
Tolstoy’s deepest insight concerns time itself. In a deterministic view, time is a neutral space where events unfold according to fixed laws and the future lies already implicit in the present, waiting to be revealed. But in Tolstoy’s world, time is generative. Each moment reshapes what can happen next. Possibilities interact, combine, and disappear, their significance becoming visible only as events unfold.
One might say that the system is constantly generating variation—new configurations, new alignments, new opportunities—but without any overarching mechanism that selects among them in advance. Selection happens locally, in real time, through action. The closer one looks, the more things fail to simplify, as in the Newtonian model, and ramify instead. What happens to be taken up is what persists.
This is why most Austrian and Russian generals in War and Peace are consistently wrong. They believe they possess a science of warfare—a system capable of anticipating outcomes. Before Austerlitz, they insist that “every contingency has been foreseen.” The result is Napoleon’s greatest victory—yet their confidence remains intact, attributing failure to imperfect execution, never to the limits of prediction itself. As so often happens, the conviction that events must conform to a science makes the supposed science unfalsifiable.
The wisest general, Kutuzov, appreciates that people conceive only of a few possibilities while there are thousands. Famously, in the Council of War before Austerlitz, he advises not more planning but “a good night’s sleep.” What matters most is the alertness to seize opportunities that cannot be anticipated in advance.
This distinction—between a world that can be mapped and one that must be navigated—extends beyond warfare. Wherever outcomes depend on unfolding interactions, local knowledge, and irreversible time, no complete science is possible. One can orient oneself, but one cannot blaze the path in advance.
The Illusion of Inevitability
If the future is open, why does the past so often appear inevitable? Tolstoy offers several answers, including what he calls “the law of retrospection.”
Once events have occurred, we can reconstruct the paths that led to them. We identify signs that seem to foreshadow the outcome we now know. Alternatives fade from view—not because they were not real, but because they left no trace. The result is a powerful illusion: What happened begins to seem as if it had to happen.
Tolstoy asks us to imagine a group of men hauling a log, all pulling in different directions. Wherever they happen to wind up, someone will say they planned to do so.
This retrospective projection—which one of us has called backshadowing—reshapes our understanding of history. We look at earlier moments and conclude that the outcome was implicit all along. The more coherent the explanation, the easier it is to forget that things might have turned out otherwise. To avoid backshadowing, we must practice sideshadowing—recognizing that other outcomes, some of which we can imagine, were genuinely possible.
That is just the insight that those who believe they have discovered a hard science allowing for prediction in the social world forget or deny. And yet they cannot foresee their own future.
Tolstoy’s narrative resists this illusion by preserving the density of lived experience—the sense that at each moment multiple futures were genuinely possible. History, in this view, is not a line but a branching structure, most of whose branches vanish without record.
AI and Narrative Certainty
In the age of AI, this dream of certainty has taken a new and more persuasive form. Artificial intelligence can process vast datasets, identify patterns invisible to human perception, and generate explanations with remarkable coherence. Faced with such capabilities, it is tempting to believe that uncertainty can finally be overcome—that the future can be rendered legible in advance.
But the deeper effect of AI lies in its ability to reorganize the past. Given sufficient data, AI systems can produce narratives that make outcomes appear coherent, even inevitable. They can identify correlations, reconstruct causal chains, and highlight what they regard as signs foreshadowing what followed. The result is not necessarily false, but it is selective.
In this way, AI functions less as a predictor than as a powerful engine of narrative compression, reducing the apparent space of possibilities by presenting a single path as the path. What was once understood as a field of possible alternatives becomes retrospectively legible as an inevitable sequence, reducing many “futuribles” to one. The danger here lies in premature coherence, the sense that complexity has been resolved when it has only been reorganized into a persuasive form.
A Compass Rather Than a Map
Tools do more than extend thought; they reshape the environment in which thought occurs. AI, for instance, introduces a distinctive bias by generating what is statistically coherent, what resembles patterns derived from accumulated data.
In an evolutionary system, what persists is not necessarily what is best in any absolute sense but what is most easily selected under prevailing conditions. AI changes those conditions in the intellectual world, lowering the cost of generating variations while subtly guiding selection toward what is already legible within its patterns.
Over time, this can narrow the space of perceived possibilities by making them less visible, less accessible, less likely to be pursued. Certain forms of thought—those that resist simplification, that depend on sustained attention, or that emerge from direct engagement with the world—become comparatively fragile.
What follows from Tolstoy’s ideas, on the other hand, is not that prediction is useless or that analysis should be abandoned, but rather that we must think in terms of a compass rather than a map. A map assumes a fixed terrain and a determinate path, while a compass provides direction without specifying the route. In a world of genuine contingency, only the latter is available. One can choose a bearing, but the path itself is discovered through movement. Orientation is not foresight.
This is the force of Machado’s insight: The road is made by walking not because we lack information but because the path does not exist until it is created.
To accept this is to adopt a different understanding of knowledge, not as a complete representation of what will happen, but as a capacity to respond intelligently to what does happen. It is inseparable from time, from attention, from the ability to recognize significance as it emerges.
The impulse to eliminate contingency is understandable. Uncertainty is uncomfortable: It resists control and frustrates planning. But it is also what makes agency possible.
A world in which everything could be predicted would be a world in which nothing could be otherwise. Action would lose its meaning, since outcomes would already be fixed. The openness of the future is not a defect in our knowledge, but a condition of human life.
Artificial intelligence does not change this condition—but it can make us forget it. By rendering the past as if it had been inevitable, it invites us to imagine that the future is already written. Against this, one must insist on what Tolstoy and Machado understood in saying that the future remains unwritten, not because we have failed to compute it but because it does not yet exist."]]>tolstoy garysaulmorson julioottino antoniomachado fleeting alertness certainty uncertainty foresight prediction predictions contingency time variation selection local localism slow small complexity simplicity inevitability retrospection localknowledge knowledge irreverability science 2026 backshadowing sideshadowing coherence cohesion control human humanism planning plans narrativecompression future data ai artificialintelligence conditions possibility possibilities simplification orientation compass direction maps mapping liveexperience experience history action reason technocracy futuribles compasses canon humanness life living warandpeace bfskinner bronisławmalinowski karlmarxhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9d990d00b4a4/Ellul and Berry – International Jacques Ellul Society2026-06-13T21:03:44+00:00
https://ellul.org/themes/ellul-and-berry/
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https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/06/the-humane-localism-of-pope-leo-xiv/
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https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/06/localists-abroad-a-conversation-with-joel-carillet/
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https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/education/stupidity-is-the-greatest-sin
robertogrecoWe should be ready to spend several hours each day (provided we are in good health) doing physical work. Intellectuals, in particular, would discover the wholesome effect this has. Daily practical work allows each person’s special light, his or her gift, to be kindled. This spark in each one, though maybe hidden, gives a glimpse of various gifts – possibly in scholarship, music, the use of words, creative art in woodwork, sculpture, or painting. Or simplest and best of all, a nature-loving person may have a particular gift for farm or garden work…. Idleness and tedium are symptoms of death. Where there is life, people have alert, creative minds and are ready to serve and help one another. This is not mere fantasy about an unattainable future; it is a present reality in a growing community.
Such lifelong educational community, whatever the varying forms it may take, is the goal of the liberating arts. It’s the way that we can remember our purpose as human beings possessing bodies, minds, and souls. And it’s an effective answer to the stupidity that continues to afflict our world."]]>liberalarts 2026 petermommsen eberhardarnold education fascism nietzche stupidity magazines small smallmagazines plough thebaffler commentmagazine commonweal firstthings thehedgehogreview jacobin thelamp localculture mereorthodoxy mockingbird thenewatlantis thepoint gatherings local truth community kierkegaard dostoyevsky buderhof christianity educationalcommunities altgdp partisanship truthseekinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8b407bd123b1/Soiled Work - Comment Magazine2026-05-21T08:40:31+00:00
https://comment.org/soiled-work/
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https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/05/forsaking-success-wendell-berrys-return-to-kentucky/
robertogrecoSo, friends, every day do something
that won’t compute. Love the Lord.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.
Each day presents new opportunities—large and small—to act on the conviction that personal comfort or prestige are worth sacrificing for more precious goods."]]>wendellberry local slow small daviddemaree 2026 kentucky academia success conviction wealth status genelogsdon farming land place belonging thomaswolfe identity accomplishments work careers life living howwelivehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e1c63ca48238/Waymo Says Its Cars Are Safe. Here’s What They Don’t Want You To Know. - YouTube2026-04-13T16:25:35+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqVuNSx7sgs
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https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/04/prophetic-possibilities-a-few-words-on-david-w-orr-and-a-healing-vision-for-america/
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https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-get-to-know-your-neighbourhood
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gKEnfXi6AU
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yl6JpVZTdM
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https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-agriculture-local-data/
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https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/03/welcoming-the-shadow-brother/
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https://connectivetissue.substack.com/p/achieving-independence-for-the-sake
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https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-vote-early-and-often/
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https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/terribly-frustrating-after-usps-changes-more-newspapers-arent-reaching-subscribers-on-time/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1hHCMB7us
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https://placesjournal.org/article/bookshelf-fall-2025/
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https://andypetro.substack.com/p/the-quiet-erosion-of-us
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https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/12/still-asking-berrys-question/
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https://live-ssmatrix.pantheon.berkeley.edu/research-article/alexis-madrigal/
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https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/11/everything-was-once-a-place/
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https://magazine.nd.edu/stories/what-macintyre-meant/
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https://overthefield.substack.com/p/frictionfulness
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https://www.koozarch.com/essays/xigagueta-a-vessel-for-contemporary-art-writing-and-thinking
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8nuES2mwjY
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https://vimeo.com/1092092090
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1991/02/out-your-car-your-horse/309159/
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https://aeon.co/essays/generative-ai-has-access-to-a-small-slice-of-human-knowledge
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49622/perhaps-the-world-ends-here
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHMGb-dLfOU&t=1s
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https://jasmi.news/p/from-counterculture-to-cyberculture
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55sjVjyIZk4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFaTxvlMWuY
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https://mdwiki.org/wiki/WikiProjectMed:Internet-in-a-Box
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https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/when-religious-mafia-and-rightwing
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https://www.afterbabel.com/p/the-algorithm-next-door
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https://blog.ayjay.org/my-anarchist-notebook/
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https://www.audubon.org/magazine/how-indigenous-community-amazon-created-bird-guide-their-own
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https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/unsalted-red-flags-before-you-join-that-org
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https://www.noemamag.com/the-neglected-abundance-of-your-backyard/
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https://aeon.co/essays/to-survive-the-chaoscene-we-will-need-resilient-communities
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/14/in-praise-of-floods-james-c-scott-book-review
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https://www.honest-broker.com/p/9-rules-for-new-technology
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https://greattransition.org/publication/for-love-of-place
robertogreco1. An elated, loving interest in the use and care of the land.
2. An informed and conscientious submission to nature.
3. The wish to have and to belong to a place of one’s own, as the only secure source of sustenance and independence.
4. A persuasion in favor of economic democracy; a preference for enough over too much.
5. Fear and contempt of waste of every kind, and its ultimate consequence in land exhaustion.
6. A preference for saving rather than spending.
7. An assumption of the need for a subsistence or household economy.
8. An acknowledged need for neighbors, and a willingness to be a good neighbor.
9. A living sense of the need for continuity of family and community life.
10. Respect for work, and (as self-respect) for good work.
11. A lively suspicion of anything new, contradicting the ethos of consumerism and the cult of celebrity.
That is my list."
[via:
http://sarahendren.com/2025/04/03/elated-interest-lively-suspicion/
"This week I had architecture students reading about rural and remote spaces. Among other things, they looked at the terrific work of Rural Studio, Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost, and essays by Wendell Berry. I also included this interview with Berry, which cites an abbreviated version of his “agrarian values.” I asked students to identify the ideas that are not explicitly environmental, in the familiar green-rhetoric sense, and to speculate about why they might be part of Berry’s wider vision. We had one of the best conversations all semester thanks to the provocations below:
[list above]"
See also:
https://micro.blog/ablerism/61417449
"that list helped us get pretty quickly to the larger malaise of modernity by means of environmentalism. And somehow it's an oblique way for them to consider the sacred cows of the zeitgeist: limitless choice, endless growth, etc."]]]>2018 wendellberry allenwhite place farming values local small scale nature sustenance sustainability democracy economics slow conservation neighborliness work labor luddism neoluiddites luddites neoluddism cleebrity consumerism consumption frugality maintenance care repair community life living modernity choice growth degrowthhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dc83d24f6230/Prophecies of Palestine: Geology and Intimate Knowledge of the Subterranean - Columbia University2025-03-22T22:26:48+00:00
https://columbia.demo.elsevierpure.com/en/projects/prophecies-of-palestine-geology-and-intimate-knowledge-of-the-sub
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1kjDRGiugA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBKRNbe9Wxs
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https://namhenderson.wordpress.com/2010/11/13/a-simple-suggestion/
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https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2025/03/14/hasan-piker-twitch
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWaZZjErdq4
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https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/agonistic-assemblies/
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https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/the-50-year-farm-bill/265099/
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https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/nature-as-an-ally-an-interview-with-wendell-berry/
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robertogrecoThe conventional public opposition of “liberal” and “conservative” is, here as elsewhere, perfectly useless. The “conservatives” promote the family as a sort of public icon, but they will not promote the economic integrity of the household or the community, which are the main stages of family life. Under the sponsorship of “conservative” presidencies, the economy of the modern household, which once required the father to work away from home – a development that was bad enough – now requires the mother to work away from home, as well. And this development has the wholehearted endorsement of “liberals,” who see the mother thus forced to spend her days away from her home and children as “liberated” – though nobody has yet seen the father’s thus forced away as “liberated.” Some feminists are thus in the curious position of opposing the mistreatment of women and yet advocating their participation in an economy in which everything is mistreated.
This is effectively the conclusion that Lasch came to by the end of his book: that the conservation of the family is something that can only be achieved by politically and economically radical means. (Related: that’s why Lasch, like Berry, can’t be accurately described as a liberal or a conservative. That binary opposition is useless in many contexts.)
One of the difficult questions Lasch raises is this: Why had parents, in the decades preceding the writing of the book, so often acquiesced in being sidelined? Why had they agreed to allow schools and institutions linked to schools — primarily clinical counseling of various kinds — usurp the role of formation that had once been essential to the family? Perhaps realizing that he had not clearly addressed this issue in the book proper, Lasch uses the Preface to the paperback edition to venture this idea:
The school, the helping professions, and the peer group have taken over most of the family’s functions, and many parents have cooperated with this invasion of the family in the hope of presenting themselves to their children strictly as older friends and companions.
— the idea being, Lasch thinks, to eliminate conflict from the home. A fruitless notion, says Lasch, in his quasi-Freudian mode: “The attempt to get rid of conflict succeeds only in driving it underground.”
My purpose in this post (and subsequent ones, when I can get them written) is to indicate some of the ways in which Lasch’s half-century-old book illuminates current ideas about the family — for the trends he identified in 1978 have continued to this day. And much can learned by juxtaposing the family’s complicity in its own marginalization with another point, one raised by one of Lasch’s critics from the Left. That critic, Mark Poster, rejects Lasch’s argument for the necessity of the family in these terms: “The only way to [ensure] democracy for children is to provide them with a wide circle of adults to identify with, the ability to select their sources of identification, and a separation between authority figures and nurturant figures.” (Poster published a book in the same year, 1978, that the paperback edition of Haven appeared: it is called Critical Theory of the Family and its argument is pretty much what you would expect from that title.)
There’s much that could be said about each of Poster’s criteria for ensuring “democracy for children,” but I think the key one is this: “the ability to select their sources of identification.” I believe that for Poster — and this is true of many, if not most, leftist critics of the family — the ineradicable failing of the family is simply that it is given, not chosen. From this point of view, only what the individual chooses for him- or herself can be valid for that individual. (Except in the case of race, which, as we learned some years ago from the cases of Rachel Dolezal and Rebecca Tuvel, simply though mysteriously cannot be chosen.) Poster’s user of the term “identification” is prescient, especially when one thinks of people who who say things like “I was assigned male at birth, but I identify as female.” I reject what was given and I choose otherwise. And the value of what I choose is determined wholly by the fact that I choose it. It is not something that anyone else has a right to an opinion about. (I find myself here thinking of Roger Scruton’s comment in The Meaning of Conservatism that the primary goal of liberalism is “the satisfaction of as many choices as short time allows.”)
This mode of conceiving the person can shape how people think about their families as well, something readily seen in a recent New York Times article about people who end all contact with their families. One woman interviewed in that article — who cut off her father because he demonstrated “a lack of interest in my life as I got older” — articulates the key principle of this movement: “It is not a child’s responsibility to maintain a relationship with their parent(s).” In family matters, there are no responsibilities — at least none that bind me; there — again, for me — are only free choices. It would be interesting to know whether people who adhere to this principle think that parents have any responsibilities to their adult children.
~ 2 ~
I was effectively raised by my paternal grandmother, because my mother worked long hours to keep a roof over our heads and my father was in and out of prison. He was a drunkard, and a violent one, so for me things were better when he was locked up. Not that we didn’t have good moments; you just never knew when the pivot to darkness would come. But you did know that it was coming. My mother was in a bad situation and did the best she could; but she was never an emotionally demonstrative woman, and at the end of the working day she didn’t have much energy left. Almost all of the demonstrated affection I received came from Grandma. Often she and she alone kept my head above water.
At age twenty-one, when I married the woman who has now been my wife for forty-four years, I entered a new family. I was not then merely rough around the edges — all my surfaces were abraded and abrasive, and I quiver slightly whenever I think about the conversations Teri’s parents must have had about the boy their daughter had determined to marry. Lord knows they had hoped for, and expected, someone much better than I was. But here’s the thing: once Teri’s father had said Yes to my request for his daughter’s hand in marriage — and yes, that’s how Teri wanted it: not just to give her consent, but to ask for and abide by the consent of her parents — I was his and his wife’s son. From that day forward I belonged to them just as securely and unquestionably as the children of their own marriage. I was not what they had chosen; I was handed to them not on a silver platter but on a chipped dinner plate; but they welcomed me into their home, into their life, into their hearts, and they never looked back. They could have said No; instead they said Yes, to me and all that I was and wasn’t.
It is impossible for me to overstress how much that welcome meant to me, and how determinative that was for my future. Gradually I became someone not unlike the person they would have chosen if they had been the ones choosing, and one of the most gratifying moments of my life came when I was around fifty years old, and my father-in-law — a working man from Columbiana, Alabama, a simple man with a high-school education and a great big heart — gave me one of his characteristic bone-cracking hugs, looked me right in the eye, and said: “Alan, I’m so proud of the man you’ve turned out to be.” A Nobel Prize wouldn’t have meant so much to me as that word of praise from that man.
But all this began when they accepted me without question and without reservation, and committed themselves to my flourishing, as they were already committed to the flourishing of their biological children. I truly do not know what would have become of me if not for the constancy of their love. They loved their daughter; their daughter loved me; they were therefore called to love me too. So they did. To them it was as simple as that.
Everything I think about family arises from this experience.
~ 3 ~
The phrase “haven in a heartless world” is Lasch’s but it is adapted from Karl Marx, who (in the introduction to his Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right) wrote that “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” Lasch’s phrase is thus more ambivalent and ambiguous than it appears to those who do not know what it borrows from, and have not grasped his long argument. That argument is: The modern economic order simultaneously creates the need for family to be a haven and prevents it from serving as a haven. (To get Marx’s argument, substitute “religion” for “family” in the previous sentence.) Lasch:
The same historical developments that have made it necessary to set up private life — the family in particular — as a refuge from the cruel world of politics and work, an emotional sanctuary, have invaded this sanctuary and subjected it to outside control.
As our socio-economic order has extended itself into what I call metaphysical capitalism, its power to penetrate and demolish all would-be havens has only increased. It strives to render us all homeless, and then to sell us the goods and services that, it is claimed, compensate for any and all losses. And homelessness is a key concept here. The comforts intrinsic to family life are those that arise from what a family at its best does, which is to make a home.
When people are groping about for a good quote about home, they typically turn to a couple of lines from a poem by Robert Frost: “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, / They have to take you in.” But the quoters rarely know the context.
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