Nomad wrote:I don't see much wisdom in Adam's current posts.
From my understanding, it would be like recruits in the army. The men are afraid because they are about to hit the beach running. Bombs will be dropping, bullets wizzing by, mines to be evaded, and the prospect that any second could be your last, is met with: "What are you worrying about? As long as you have a helment on, a rifle in your hand, and some body armor, YOU'LL BE FINE!"
As others have pointed out, its not women we fear, but the government destroying our lives. You can judge and evaluate women, use the best of Gods wisdom to discern if she is the right one for you, but you can never nor ever, control women. They have God given free will. And can choose to change over-time, thus ensuring a divorce 20 years later.
That's one of the reasons why I'd brought up the 'Lost Battalion', as a metaphor for that kind of trauma.
Nomad wrote:Lets not forget that even inspite such risks, men still get married regardless, but to say that they "made mistakes" as if there is perfect choices, is a very limited and narrow mindset. There is no perfect answer and no perfect choice. There is only a lot of options, some leading to better lives and others, leading to hell.
Government in this current climate, can literally incarcerate any man who divorces and is under their jurisdiction to pay alimony. Failure to do so is met with a Prison sentence. Thats right, your only crime is getting married.
Women already have, and been known to abuse this. There is always the saying, Prepare for the worst, hope for the best, and your odds are better than those who don't prepare, but to act as if you just have to make perfect choices perfectly for the next 50 years.. get out of here. There is no perfect solution to all lifes problems, and no man should be subjected to this type of torment and evil in his life just because he said "I do" to the wrong one.
I'm beginning to think that *pinning the tail on the govt donkey*, isn't the full story here.
As with the World War I metaphor, I believe a big part of the issue is that of modern industrialization and the diminutive value of the average life. Realize, prior to WWI, soldiers fought with single round muskets, swords, as well as hand-to-hand combat skills. WWI, with its continuous fire machine guns, heavy artillery, poison gas, tanks, etc, changed that forever. Things like martial arts/boxing, etc, were relegated to hobbyists, much like ham radio, not to the professional soldier. Going along with that metaphor, as ppl had left the small farms, small workshops, small shipping boats, etc, they lost more and more control of their lives. Larger and larger corporate or govt entities, started dividing up ppl, as a resource. When a society is based around such large scale machinations, isn't it feasible that the relationships between men and women, since it's "highly inefficient", would go into decline as well?
As more and more societies become like America/UK of the early 1900s, the phenomena grows to a global level, not just the original industrial states. So what's an aftershock wave in the Anglosphere, soon grows into a global wave, where more and more ppl feel the effects of this type of dehumanization and insensitivity. Remember, the so-called happy 1950s was a cultural phenomena, akin to the internal Marshall Plan, where Anglosphere was made to look better than the cold hand of Soviet Communism. But as Ned Beatty said in the movie, 'Network', it's all about the big corporations and the strings that they pull, not ppl. So with the yolk of communism removed, the effects of global industrialization are re-exerted on the populace, as a whole. And in this case, the govt is merely a partner in arms, with the corporate powers.
