Man, I want to! I think the problem that I keep running into is that Le Guin's sedoretu make a lot of sense for a low-density society that's mostly concerned with stability and farming? While HIMYM is such a culturally specific story about people living in a mobile wage-based society. So, like, would it be the same story if they were goat-herders who'd been to school and came home to herd more goats on their ancestral lands?

... And then I end up thinking about family structure and late capitalism for an hour and not writing any more story. Seriously, if anyone else wants to take this ball and run with it, I will be there with bells on.

(thank you again, melannen, for writing this post, btw, I had clearly been just burning to talk about sedoretu for months now. And now I have many more interesting-family-structure stories to read! I have read almost no Diane Duane, which is just criminal.)