constructivism

is it any issue to frown upon the idea of necessarily loving your future housemates? the feel i get is that the formal conception of living together has suddenly made all of us 'closer'. does it? not for me. it feels the same to me. nothing much has changed. nothing clandestine but none of the soulmate kinship turd either. we're just gonna be living under the same roof. to each his private space, and well, of cos there'd be civil niceties all around. it's just not going to be a case where cohabitation provides a growing self-definition of 'us' as a valid familial space with a discernible affectionate voice. haha got that off this paper i'm currently reading about regionalism and identity. here's the original sentence 'Regionalism provides a “growing regional self-definition of ‘East Asia’ as a valid economic space with a discernible political voice.” '