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by nonrandomstring
1552 days ago
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> 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. |
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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.