I joked to a younger friend who goes on about boomers, that boomers ruined the economy and millennials ruined sex. He agreed. Romanticism died in the mid-2010s

I joked to a younger friend who goes on about boomers, that boomers ruined the economy and millennials ruined sex. He agreed. Romanticism died in the mid-2010s. Being the knight who ventures into the world for the ideal love no longer works. The "bolt of lightning" style love is not enough to overcome economic and social pressures, people want more security in arranged and strategic marriages. People who commit to a lust-driven lifestyle make tradeoffs on how they relate to potential partners. Porn has exploded and soaked up all the excess desire. People are working way too much to get time off to meet people and frequently compromise in exploring romantic connections at work. Dating apps have turned dating into an image game and made a party lifestyle trivially easy. A lot of people have become cogs in a dating machine. What makes people desirable in a relationship hasn't changed, it's just become way easier to give away what makes it work. Finding desirable partners is much more difficult when everybody is falling for worldly errors. We need Christ to clean up sex. Star Wars is done, time for Sex Wars.