Comments by "Tim Bucks" (@TimBitts649) on "Jordan Peterson Exposes the Dark Truth About Marriage You Need to Know | Dave Rubin & Isabel Brown" video.

  1. Why the stand alone, two parent nuclear family is such a bad idea: If you look at who is successful, it runs in families. Extended families are natural. They run on nepotism. They help members, be successful. And extended families based on nepotism are helpful, because people are wired to look after kin, in small tribes. See: Valuetainment: Why Indian Immigrants Raise Successful Kids. Our social policy should hijack human nepotism to reduce government dependency. It's like suburbs. The suburbs were a great idea, long ago. So were isolated nuclear families. Both evolved into bad ideas, due to social chance. Now, suburbs and isolated nuclear families are going away because isolated nuclear families are disadvantage and rely on the state too much, rather than kin. They are failing, in their competition with other family structures, in my opinion. It's interesting that the two most successful ethnic or religious groups in America are Jewish Americans and then Indian Americans. Both have reputations for clannishness, as if that's supposed to be a bad thing. I think it's a good thing. Individualism is a fine idea, but like anything it has it's limits. It's usually just promoted by the powerful, in order to weaken rivals for power. Powerful families never run on the basis of isolated nuclear families.
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