Mollie Hemingway

But it's so interesting how it works out there.

We all know that privacy is so important to your understanding of yourself.

There are no private children.

There's no bond between mother and child that is strictly forbidden.

There are also no bonds between sexual partners because of the way they've arranged it so that it's just machines taking care of themselves.

Once he develops feelings, that's when things become problematic for that relationship.

But I was thinking when I was rereading it this time, you know, Frederick Douglass, when he's talking about how dehumanizing the life of a slave was, one of the things that just struck me so much was how he talked about how he was kept from his mother and how he had, like, basically no relationship with her at some point.

But he was, you know, nursed by someone else.

His mother played no role.

And how important that is to oppression of people, to not let them have little privacies, right?

And that begins with that mother-child bond, but then it continues through relationships.

It makes me think back to the BLM movement.

I remember when that erupted going to the BLM website, and they had a list of what they believed in.

And one of the first things they said that they believed in was the destruction of the family unit.

There's so much application here.

And he's saying this in the context, too, of having gone through these 40 chapters.

He's writing these epistles to these foreigners about the beauty of the system that he lives in.

And then, of course, like 10 chapters in, he starts realizing he has an imagination, he has a soul.

And it's deeply disturbing to him.

And he's tortured by this.