Another one. The premise: Young people are cutting off their parents for minor mistakes and misunderstandings. The lead anecdote: A woman severs ties with her family for refusing to get vaccinated before her wedding — to a man who *lost his mother and brother to COVID*

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there is a piece to be written about this "no contact" as a very specific kind of moral panic about status, intergenerational mobility, and maybe dementia. because it is wild how much this no contact thing riles up older people.

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ooh, I answer this in the piece actually -- it's because a reporter got Robert Bork's movie rental history and Congress was shook! like ......people can do that? 🫨 ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/salaz...

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One thing you learn from reading the academic literature on parental estrangement is that it's rarely *just* about events from childhood. Most adults are willing to reconcile with their problematic parents as long as they can acknowledge their mistakes and own up to them. A lot of them refuse.

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If you aren't following the right to repair movement led by farmers, you should be! This is a great piece to start with.

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