Anonymous Kill the Couple in Your Head May 2021 Published by Ungrateful Hyenas Editions. What follows are the notes of a talk given in Berlin, Athens, and...

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/4152443

The Couple splits us off from ourselves and the living web of relations, restricting care, material and emotional support, affection, and intimacy to this codependent unit. What we are calling ‘The Couple’ is only mutual control, management, and governance.

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  • Chapelgentry@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    IIRC, one of the biggest reasons the state promotes monogamy is because our legal system is designed for two-party disputes and isn’t well equipped to handle deviations from that. Consider what divorce proceedings would look like in this new social system with our current legal system - what is already a protracted process would be exponentially longer.

    If you wanted to escape from these kinda of situations from a state viewpoint, you’d need to rebuild the legal system to handle the new interactions. I’m not making a value judgement but rather speaking to the mechanical aspects of changing a social norm with widespread effect.