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I’m Hilko, a Communications and Social Psychology student in Amsterdam
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About us
As time passes, we will share our life, our opinions, our thoughts and our adventures with you. It might not all be strictly factual, but it’s all true
I also do web design and web hosting. Ironically, I don't have a site for that yet.
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Great article that describes how the concept of ‘friendship’ has developed through the ages. It’s predictably negative about recent developments (Facebook, etc.), and while the arguments aren’t entirely convincing, it offers an interesting view. We live at a time when friendship has become both all and nothing at all. Already the characteristically modern relationship, it has in recent decades become the universal one: the form of connection in terms of which all others are understood, against which they are all measured, into which they have all dissolved. […] As for the moral content of classical friendship, its commitment to virtue and mutual improvement, that, too, has been lost. We have ceased to believe that a friend’s highest purpose is to summon us to the good by offering moral advice and correction. We practice, instead, the nonjudgmental friendship of unconditional acceptance and support—”therapeutic” friendship, in Robert N. Bellah’s scornful term. […] Capitalism, said Hume and Smith, by making economic relations impersonal, allowed for private relationships based on nothing other than affection and affinity.
