In her essay "Family" in
The Death of Adam, Robinson offers that the core bond of family life is a feeling of loyalty and identity. And if we start our experience of family life with a feeling of loyalty, then we are saved from the degradation of measuring whether our loyalty is deserved.
As I noted in
previous posts, Robinson is arguing against a culture of fear.
How are loyalty and fighting fear connected?
“The antidote to fear, distrust, self-interest
is always loyalty. The balm for failure
or weakness, or even for disloyalty, is always loyalty.”
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