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A good read...

https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2021/01/73456/

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A good read indeed. Thanks for posting it.

Truth.

Surprised this post did not get more responses.

The gist of the paper is that screwing everything in sight is not the path to a fulfilled life, but marriage and children are. It's how we are built.

It's an idiotic viewpoint that doesn't mention or recognize what the real problem is.

Here's the guy that wrote it:




LOL

Which is what, pappa Clark?

Looks like that guy is just PO'ed because he doesn't have any game.

The bottom line with respect to families is that birth rates are plummeting all across the collective West, to include Japan and Singapore.

Marriage rates falling, single parent homes increasing.

Judge a book by it's cover much? Reminds me of some guys here on the fire that dismiss anything someone says if they haven't killed X number of elk or Y number of deer, etc. Bet if we all posted pics of ourselves, a lot of us would lose credibility, LOL.

Please enlighten us as to the real problem. I hope that your take is that it is our estrangement from Christianity. When people see themselves as just another animal, well, animal behavior is what results. What do animals do? They screw everything in sight and leave mama to raise the young; rinse and repeat. Doesn't work so well with humans. Marriage and children is the path God set forth for us from the very beginning. It can be argued that most of society's ills are the result of unmarried people not keeping their clothes on, and subsequent proliferation of fatherless kids, in addition to the spiritual emptiness that the author describes.

A big part of the problem is, a lot of young people today don't see any path to making enough money to set up housekeeping and raising kids.

Another is, young men are shying away from marriage because in the event of a divorce, the man will be financially ruined for all of eternity.

Basically, young people see the marriage "thing" as something that's not available to them. It's something the previous generations participated in.

There's a lot of truth to this.

Young men today just want to jerk off and play video games till theyre 35

That's an interesting article. Kinda exhibits the extremes between the Victorian era and today.

Several years ago, the author Tom Wolfe wrote an in-depth book about the same subject. His wit and astute observations made it very readable . I can't remember the exact title but it might have been Hooking Up. (?) I had a copy but have no idea where it is now. Worth a read if you get a copy.

L.W.

Well perhaps It is because we are the "shoot every bit of paper, steel and selected game in sight" group we don't have time to screw everything in sight? That would inhibit our search for fulfilment via reloading supplies.

No time for "finger banging Mary Beth rottoncrotch through her frilly pink....."

indeed. lot's of family stuff was begun to create a growing, and viable economy. no need to get into that. it'll just ruffle feathers, cause the bristles on the back of the neck of some individuals to rise up.

not being able to afford a family is very real. that is, they'd be in deep poverty from the start and who wants their baby to have to endure that?

sex drive is with us though. well some of us.

as we move further into the post modern world and economy old patterns of behavior are breaking down, for better or worse.

Fluid transfer........ uhhhh no!

A Communion of Anxiety: A Gathering of Trumpsters and the Offspring of Trumpsters.

AC,

The current reality of the dating world is much worse than this author can even imagine, and he's completely missed the true root causes.

In many sphere's Social Media and hook up apps have broken women's ability to accurately gauge their value to potential male suitors. They confuse their number of followers and likes on facebook post with the number of men willing to marry them.

Like wise on hook up app, 80% of the women are only selecting 20% of the men. These men are happy to bed them for a night or two, but too many average women mis-interpret these encounter as what they can expect for marriage. Since these top men have options, Miss Average gets plenty of hookup, but no proposals from the men she's after. After about the age of 25, her prospects diminish every year after that until at age 30 she hits "the wall". This is where she goes into panic mode trying to lock down a high value man, but the 35 year old man has plenty of prospects in the 23-28 age range, so they are just not interested.

Here's an interesting look into the psyche of the Modern Woman who over values herself on the dating market, and what she has to look forward to:

Yessir.
Today’s local newspaper has an article about the proposed 15$/hour minimum wage “helping 50% of the workforce in Louisiana “.

Baby momma need babies for the perpetual money stream. Baby daddy says ‘I can help wit dat’.

For better or worse?

What’s the upside, Gus?