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Some of us saw what our fathers went through and thought 'that's not for me' For me it's more 'been there done that, got the postcard'. In the past I have had
by cjbgkagh 2y ago
Some of us saw what our fathers went through and thought 'that's not for me'
For me it's more 'been there done that, got the postcard'. In the past I have had little influence on my partners decisions but when they make bad decisions I'm expected to bail them out the consequences. Perhaps there is some selection criteria bias - women who date me are more likely to make bad decisions. Being old enough to have seen what has happened to the women I've dated and the women I've not dated makes me think I've dodged enough bullets for one lifetime.
The probability that when meet someone new that I like that person more than the people I have already met decreases as I meet more people. Since I've previously gotten to know a large number of people that probability is now too low for me to bother with it.
I covet intelligence and only find intelligent people interesting, instead of searching the globe for these people I prefer reading old books written by smart people.
- thefaux 2y agoI sometimes wonder about the negative effects of media (particularly literature) on my personal relationships. Minds in real life rarely measure up to what I find on the page. And yet I know that those words were the product of an embodied human and I wonder where they are.
- cjbgkagh 2y agoThey exist but are rare - with books you're generally looking at the best of all time that have undergone a very strong selection criteria bias. I think the shift from an intellectual elite culture to a more egalitarian culture has reduced the extent that such elites could be found in the same place and thus the likelihood of a very smart person meeting another very smart person is similarly greatly reduced.