Now that the group marriage debate has been opened by The New York Times and the Weekly Standard, exactly how emboldened are the polyamorists? Now, I think this is a great idea. As Governor Dukakis pointed out in his presidential campaign (was he paid off by Massachusetts-based defense contractors to put Bush 41 in the Whitehouse? OK, that was a crazy baseless canard of a conspiracy theory. It's not like I can't identify them) it's impossible to raise a child in a 2-earner family. You've simply got to have more parents than that to make a family work.
As a country, we're tied to an old standard which expects a family to be supported by a single earner. But, with the theft of value by the rich continuing unabated and the collapse of the social safety net, that's simply not tenable.
So, the polyamorists are having a dinner Thursday, and the "poly curious" are welcome. Maybe I'll drop in and report back.
Monday, July 23, 2007
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These are old ideas... every generation thinks they have reinvented the wheel. :)
http://www.polychromatic.com/fiction2.html
Wikipedia actually prevents us from such folly ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_marriage
The cultural forces that put us in dual marriage, I think, are being stressed to the breaking point by the economic realities of living in America. So, while, no, the idea of group marriage is old and well-articulated by 18th century German Utopians, the reasons for it have changed.
I did, by the way, stop by, but I chickened out and slunk away instead of joining the group. I saw two men and a woman in late middle age, and I didn't really know how I'd start a fruitful conversation -- there were too few of them to passively observe.
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