The meaning of marriage & gov’t redesign theory
Mark Olsen (Pseudo Polymath) , linking to a article / post by Jason Kuznicki where Mr Kuznicki discusses the meaning of marriage eventually concluding that marriage is basically about mutual care. IN response Mark, and we would completely agree, argues that this internal only view is only half the picture, and then consideres some issues around same sex marriage that present more then internal issues for consideratinon.
Mr Kuznicki ends by offering some policy suggestions for why the government might be good to support “nurturing” relationships irrespective the gender of the participants. I would suggest that a traditional marriage and family structure might be worthy of different considerations than a nurturing covenantal bond between two adults. This is not just because children are defenseless, a lot of work, only occasionally cute, but required for the continuance of the race. But because traditional family life and intergenerational bonds are what tie us to who we once were, and this might be valuable.
As always with Mark, this is a well written, well reasoned, and intelligent post, we encouarge everyone to give this full post a read here.
Mark follows the post about marriage up with one that ponders how government could be redesigned and reapplied via use of modern technology (i.e. 330 million voters on topics, etc). He looks at how a model that directly measured the views of society might look and operate. Mark does not present this concept with his support, but provides it as means of making the reader think and ponder some new options in government by use of modern technology. This is a very interesting idea (should advancing technology change how we vote, poll, react, etc) Like Mark I would not support or condone the idea, but it is interesting to think about. Full Post Here.
