[iaskwhy]

The purpose is not being marketed, is having sex. You market yourself so you can have better sex. At least that's what some people say, like when they claim Zuckerberg started The Facebook so people could get easily laid.

I've also had interesting conversations saying the purpose is not sex but power. We do stuff the way we do because that might get us more power.

Sociology is really interesting.

[JonnieCache]

Life has many disparate potential sources of meaning, and the urge to systematize everything along one dimension represents ideology at work and should be avoided.

Those who go around proclaiming everything to be only about sex or only about money or only about power wish to make it so.

Of course natural selection is true, and we ultimately strive to pass on our genes but the mechanisms we've developed that motivate/enable us to do so are absurdly complex and admit much more than mere power games and peacock strutting.

[at612]

> Zuckerberg started The Facebook so people could get easily laid.

Off to create a Facebook account, back in a moment.

[ I wish this had been explained to me back in 2008 when it first came out and I couldn't see any use for it. ]

[mlrtime]

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”

― Oscar Wilde