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In some cases it tried to make observations in an objective or granular way, while at the same time mixing in sweeping generalizations and hand waving, > You’r
by Supermancho 5y ago
In some cases it tried to make observations in an objective or granular way, while at the same time mixing in sweeping generalizations and hand waving,
> You’re in love.
> Critically, you get everyone to agree that it’s gauche to discuss the strategic logic of all this.
I'm thinking no. Lots of people talk about the expense of marriage. Some go so far as to say "it's just a piece of paper". Everyone doesn't agree there is strategic loss or that "you're in love" is a singular recognizable concept to justifies anything in particular.
> You secretly guess that the group is sustained by a minority of true believers who make up critical mass for a larger group of people you, but you never talk about this and neither does anyone else.
Nobody talks about this except every atheist from high school forward. Rather than have a nuanced or an informed insightful analysis we get these short statements that both seemed lazy and misrepresenting a supposed underlying zeitgeist.
etc
It's like reading an antivax manifesto.
- vmception 5y agoI got something different out of both of your examples. Its not that many people talk about the expense of marriage, its that people would invalidate the people who talk about the financial intertwining and folly of marriage as both a cultural institution or contract. Just like you pointed out that only people in the religion of anti-religion are the ones who talk ad nauseum about it, instead of just being non-religious people.