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Brilliant essay with advice that works for any kind of intimate relationship, including polyamorous and monogamous. MUST READ!
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Interview with Tacit (Franklin Veaux) about an fabulous essay he recently authored, which I bookmarked
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"The Monkeysphere is the group of people who each of us, using our monkeyish brains, are able to conceptualize as people. If the monkey scientists are monkey right, it's physically impossible for this to be a number much larger than 150.
"Most of us do not have room in our Monkeysphere for our friendly neighborhood sanitation worker. So, we don't think of him as a person. We think of him as The Thing That Makes The Trash Go Away.
"And even if you happen to know and like your particular garbage man, at one point or another we all have limits to our sphere of monkey concern. It's the way our brains are built. We each have a certain circle of people who we think of as people, usually our own friends and family and neighbors, and then maybe some classmates or coworkers or church or suicide cult.
"Those who exist outside that core group of a few dozen people are not people to us. They're sort of one-dimensional bit characters."
