2021-10-04

Daily checklist

On the origins of marriage, reddit
- Linked https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/ch02.htm
- For some reason I find the tribal unity argument hard to except, it just seems like a real non obvious way to unite tribes, I don’t know why I think that. Could it be a genetic (instinctive thing). Maybe it was used because it was something already in effect that most homo sapiens were familiar with. aka not its origins.
- The general pattern has been that humans like to form relationships, and that there was almost always a cultural tradition acknowledging those relationships between the people in the relationship and between the relationship members and the rest of society.