I’m also curious about why you have included “brotherhood” as a useful concept...
Ah, in that case I noticed that the modern definition of “brotherhood” tends to just be “all-male group”, and that we have lost the cultural context in which it made sense originally. In the times when you had honor duels etc., having the second part in the definition of brotherhood (preventing girl drama) was crucial, and probably implicitly obvious to everyone (so it wasn’t even mentioned). So after redefining it back, it makes sense that the modern world needs “brotherhoods” (and “sisterhoods”) less than ever.
If we assume that we are not more able to cope with those problems, we only fool ourselves that we are—then more. So it depends on how optimistic you are about the current society.
In any case this is not the first time when I realize that to make a concept more useful, I can adopt a definition that is similar, and yet crucially different, from the “common wisdom” one. One other example of this is my definition of mnemonic technique.
Ah, in that case I noticed that the modern definition of “brotherhood” tends to just be “all-male group”, and that we have lost the cultural context in which it made sense originally. In the times when you had honor duels etc., having the second part in the definition of brotherhood (preventing girl drama) was crucial, and probably implicitly obvious to everyone (so it wasn’t even mentioned). So after redefining it back, it makes sense that the modern world needs “brotherhoods” (and “sisterhoods”) less than ever.
… more than ever?
If we assume that we are not more able to cope with those problems, we only fool ourselves that we are—then more. So it depends on how optimistic you are about the current society.
In any case this is not the first time when I realize that to make a concept more useful, I can adopt a definition that is similar, and yet crucially different, from the “common wisdom” one. One other example of this is my definition of mnemonic technique.