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[necropolitical]

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I admit I do like how you're fussing over me, saying I'm a good man who makes you proud. It feels nice. It makes me want to achieve this quality - to meet your vision of me. But Vevay, it seems to me like the minimum of how a man should be, loving my son enough to wish him a better life than my own. Isn't this what all parents should want for their children?

Well, perhaps you'll say to me that not many put that want into practice. That might be true. But Vevay, perhaps people who don't want better for their children shouldn't have them.

I don't understand how someone could have a child and not want the best in the world for them.

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This is no condemnation of my father, by the way. It was the culture, not my father. He's [...] disagreeable sometimes, but it's [...] like Senan. Without the complaints, of course. He prefers to sit and make the room cold.

Well, it's because he's a businessman. Keeping quiet and ignoring makes people nervous.

But he raised us without enclosure. Without rules to say what we had to be because our culture says so. It wasn't encouragement, but still, I think it was better than he knew as a child.

Maybe Sergiy will do better than I have, with his children - and so it will go.

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Maybe Sergiy will have you to teach him joy and simplicity. [...] And optimism.

Too often, I'm a pessimist. Eh, a catastrophist sometimes. God knows Madeline isn't optimistic, either.

I'd like him to learn to see things positively.