You Can Run

(magazine.atavist.com)

30 points | by bryanrasmussen 3 hours ago

2 comments

  • bee_rider 27 minutes ago
    Wow, that was quite a lot of cryptic build-up. It’s basically a story about conman/drug guy interwoven with biographical information and anecdotes about how this impacted his family.

    “You can run,” I guess maybe in the context of “You can run but you can’t hide” is not really touched upon too much. I mean it doesn’t have a particular connection to this story, any more than any other story about a fugitive.

  • delichon 52 minutes ago

      The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. -- Ezekiel 18:20
    
    That was aspirational around 590 BC when written, and still is. To isolate children from the iniquity of the parent would require the dissolution of the family.
    • boothby 39 minutes ago
      My favorite (dys|u)topian setting; universal child removal to robo-nurseries, gets closer to implementable every day.
      • Etheryte 35 minutes ago
        They more or less did that during the bombing of London, children were evacuated to foster families in the countryside en masse. Luckily they came to terms with the fact that this was an insanely traumatic experience pretty quickly and reverted. It's literally less traumatic for a child to be in an active war zone than to be separated from their parents.
        • kortilla 18 minutes ago
          Does this apply to babies separated at birth though?
          • moralestapia 9 minutes ago
            The trauma shifts forward in time, like debt.
    • lazyasciiart 29 minutes ago
      And as many adoptive parents know, that doesn’t go so easily.