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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

First women had to be convinced that having and raising children with a partner was some kind of trap, to be avoided. This idea was well implanted in me by middle school. Most of the 'unspoken idea' of the professional woman with no kids came from my own Mom, who was perenially unsatisfied with my Father, because he was not as business driven as she was. Though they are both gone, I feel sad for my Dad, who was essentially a very intelligent and decent man who would have rather been a farmer than an architect. An overiding theme of 'unecessary educations' meant to dehumanize and with some remote goal of escaping the human condition.

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This is not the first era. This was inherited from the previous generation, not the one prior to that, and embraced in full by the one that followed. So he we are in the next era, and those of it know nothing of the generation "prior to that." And the obsession now is not with enjoying everything in the moment, it's with experiencing everything in the moment. The value is in the experience alone, not in the how it was experienced. Enjoyment is gone.

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