Monday, April 08, 2013

Two Contrasting Social Lubricants

A thought for your consideration:

In low-functioning family systems, alcohol is the social lubricant.

In high-functioning family systems, humor is the social lubricant.
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6 comments:

plimton said...

Out of left field...

9:46 PM, April 08, 2013
Gruntled said...

In the "Family Life" class we are discussing functional and dysfunctional family systems.

I have long thought that mid-range families, which sacrifice intimacy in order to achieve order, encourage drinking as a way to temporarily suspend the rules against intimacy, without permanently changing the rules.

Humor is a feature of optimally functional family systems.

Today I put two and two together.

10:10 PM, April 08, 2013
Anonymous said...

What do you mean by mid-range families?

And can you elaborate on how humor is analogous to alcohol in this context? Does humor suspend the rules against intimacy without permanently changing the rules?

4:15 PM, April 09, 2013
Percy said...

What then is cannabis?

7:48 PM, April 09, 2013
Gruntled said...

Hmm. I don't know. It is used by rural kids in Kentucky. What do you think?

8:44 PM, April 09, 2013
Anonymous said...

Funny, I think my family laughs more when we have an open bottle of wine to share.

12:23 PM, April 10, 2013

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