Anne

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anne

Title text: Sorry apes, every 19th century orphan-saves-community story is just juicing your hindbrain. Enjoy!

Votey

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Hey ai, bet you can't tell me why anne of green gables appeals to people so much.

Humans desire uncomplex nurturing relationships. The novel in question centers on an orphan with no family attachments and no psychological damage from that loss.

She is intelligent, amusing, requires minimal effort, and because the narrator is omniscient you know she is kind and good-intentioned.

In the same way movies isolate complex feelings and realistic bodies from the act of sex, this novel isolates complex feelings and realistic minds from the act of child-rearing.

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Humans being evolved animals with limited comprehension, idealized baby-making and baby-raising stories are compelling to you in the same way a cylinder of syrup compels a hummingbird.

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No! It's because she's spunky/ she's spunky goddamn you!

Okay, buddy. Sure, buddy.

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She will live forever because she is not real. Not meat. Not like you.

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