Marriage is rather a farce, a social failure and a marketing/social control mechanism. It routinely fails and is based on complete fantasy nonsense. The alternative? Cannot say.
Marriage is a worn out social custom, designed to pass property and allot assets and provide an environment to safely reproduce. It worked much better when we became old and decrepit at 35. It is a religious means of social control and in the last century, is just a vehicle to both control and to sell stuff to people. There is hardly any way to live on top of someone for more than 7 or 8 years and feel much more than friendship, and likely a lot of revulsion and disgust toward them. It is romantically mythological bullshit, appealing to that part of the human psyche that believes in angels, space wizard god, heaven and other absurd nonsense. The white dress, happily ever after, I will love you forever stuff-- is something sold by wedding planners at 100$ K per pop. Breaking the parents financially and then watching 55% end quickly in divorce and most if the rest dissolve into bitter tolerance and misery. I am against marriage. On be other hand, I cannot honestly come up with a viable alternative.
Marriage is a worn out social custom, designed to pass property and allot assets and provide an environment to safely reproduce. It worked much better when we became old and decrepit at 35. It is a religious means of social control and in the last century, is just a vehicle to both control and to sell stuff to people. There is hardly any way to live on top of someone for more than 7 or 8 years and feel much more than friendship, and likely a lot of revulsion and disgust toward them. It is romantically mythological bullshit, appealing to that part of the human psyche that believes in angels, space wizard god, heaven and other absurd nonsense. The white dress, happily ever after, I will love you forever stuff-- is something sold by wedding planners at 100$ K per pop. Breaking the parents financially and then watching 55% end quickly in divorce and most if the rest dissolve into bitter tolerance and misery. I am against marriage. On be other hand, I cannot honestly come up with a viable alternative.
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There was a viable alternative in place before the Europeans came to the new world. Bartolome de las Casas describes the Indians in History of the Indies 'Women in Indian society were treated so well as to startle the Spaniards. Las Casas describes sexual relations, Marriage laws are non-existent: men and women alike choose their mates and leave them as they please. without offense, jealousy or anger. They multiply in great abundance; pregnant women work to the last minute and give birth almost painlessly; up the next day, they bathe in the river and are as clean and healthy as before giving birith. If they tire of their men, they themselves abortions wiht herbs, that force stillbirths, covering their shameful parts with leaves or cotton cloth, although on the whole, Indian men and women look upon total nakedness with as much casualness as we look upon a man's head or at this hands. The Indians, Las Casas says have no religion and it goes on.
There was an alternative, but imperialism, religion and colonialism destroyed it. This was from Zinn's People's history. You should write more, you have good provocative things to say.
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