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The history of wars is the history of men not getting any. Alexander the Great, a little bit short. Genghis Khan, on the ugly side. Doors wrote a song: Girl,

The history of wars is the history of men not getting any. Alexander the Great, a little bit short. Genghis Khan, on the ugly side. Doors wrote a song: Girl, you gotta love your man Girl, you gotta love your man Take him by the hand Make him understand The world on you depends Our life will never end Gotta love your man, yeah Those peaceniks in the 60's got few things right with their free love trip. Imagine the misery the world could have been spared if Zuckerberg could have just got laid.

moltke 5y ago
I think the free love thing in the 60s likely exacerbated this by destroying monogamy.
- fuzzer37 5y ago
  destroying monogamy is a good thing, tho.
  - moltke 5y ago
    I think we're finding out now just how bad an idea destroying it was.
    - fuzzer37 5y ago
      In what way?
      - nonrandomstring 5y ago
        > Destroying monogamy >> I think we're finding out now just how bad an idea destroying it was. >>> In what way? I do not wish to interrupt a pleasant conversation evolving in the replies, but think what people see as an attack on monogamy is really an attack on all human relations over the past 60 years. Parents send the kids to boot camp, kids send them to a "care home". Stressed out, underpaid teachers turn education into training for the test, students cheat and complain about their crap tutors. Bosses treat their workers as farm animals and employees see their bosses as inhuman tyrants. Everywhere extreme neoliberal individualism has atomised and alienated people from one-another. Monogamy (between any partners) is just one more casualty of this process. Divorce used to be a serious soul-searching matter. Now you can do it by SMS in your lunch break. Life partners who should love one another "In sickness and health" treat each other as economic ladders, emotional punch bags, and trophies. It's not that reification wasn't always in the air, read Jane Austen, but today that's often _all_ there is.
        moltke 5y ago
        Yes, they attack our relationships because these make us strong and make the globalist/capitalist/politicians/Propagandists weak. Monogamy in particular also leveled the playing field to some degree with dating so that you didn't get the "winner takes all" situation you have today. I think the both the death of monogamy and masculinity are the underlying causes of the "incel" phenomenon. The worst part about it is that many of the effected people push for neoliberal ideas harder because they've been brainwashed to think of them as the solution.
meatsauce 5y ago
Robots aren't capable of love or lust.
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moltke 5y ago

I think the free love thing in the 60s likely exacerbated this by destroying monogamy.

fuzzer37 5y ago
destroying monogamy is a good thing, tho.
- moltke 5y ago
  I think we're finding out now just how bad an idea destroying it was.
  - fuzzer37 5y ago
    In what way?
    - nonrandomstring 5y ago
      > Destroying monogamy >> I think we're finding out now just how bad an idea destroying it was. >>> In what way? I do not wish to interrupt a pleasant conversation evolving in the replies, but think what people see as an attack on monogamy is really an attack on all human relations over the past 60 years. Parents send the kids to boot camp, kids send them to a "care home". Stressed out, underpaid teachers turn education into training for the test, students cheat and complain about their crap tutors. Bosses treat their workers as farm animals and employees see their bosses as inhuman tyrants. Everywhere extreme neoliberal individualism has atomised and alienated people from one-another. Monogamy (between any partners) is just one more casualty of this process. Divorce used to be a serious soul-searching matter. Now you can do it by SMS in your lunch break. Life partners who should love one another "In sickness and health" treat each other as economic ladders, emotional punch bags, and trophies. It's not that reification wasn't always in the air, read Jane Austen, but today that's often _all_ there is.
      - moltke 5y ago
        Yes, they attack our relationships because these make us strong and make the globalist/capitalist/politicians/Propagandists weak. Monogamy in particular also leveled the playing field to some degree with dating so that you didn't get the "winner takes all" situation you have today. I think the both the death of monogamy and masculinity are the underlying causes of the "incel" phenomenon. The worst part about it is that many of the effected people push for neoliberal ideas harder because they've been brainwashed to think of them as the solution.

meatsauce 5y ago

Robots aren't capable of love or lust.

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