TheAntipopulist
Voltaire's Viceroy
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TheAntipopulist
Voltaire's Viceroy
4yr ago
The media loves grand narratives. The 2016 election was close; a few % of voters switching in a few states would've been enough to flip it. In such a case you could expect to see narratives of equal intensity going in the opposite direction: how the Republican party had severely lost its way putting an obvious loser candidate like Trump on the ticket. Stuff like that. It's mostly clickbait.
TheAntipopulist
Voltaire's Viceroy
4yr ago
Reddit is generally OK, I just wish it was more transparent about banning things. Then again, the opaque banning policy is probably by design to avoid accountability.
It's unfortunate that Reddit and Discord have swallowed up so much of the old-school forums that used to abound.
The decline of monogamous norms simply means both sexes returning to their baseline sexual imperatives. Men would prefer to have sex with lots of women, whereas women would prefer to lock down a man who is higher value than themselves. Women aren't really interested in having sex with tons of guys the way guys are interested in having sex with lots of women. The most polyamorous I'd expect an average woman to be is if they can't lock down a high value man, in which case they could bifurcate their sexual imperative by having one primary man as the provisioner and then occasionally having sex with high value men she doesn't have the market value to lock down.
This all has a toxic effect on society. Every successful society has brokered a compromise deal between the sexes where women give up their hypergamy in exchange for men giving up trying to have sex with lots of women. Neither side is entirely happy with monogamy since they both have to give something up, but it's a stable Schelling Point that limits frustration of the lower value members of each sex. Without it, you end up with hypergamous women all competing over the top 20% of men, with the other 80% of men fighting over scraps. This lowers the national birthrate, creates an epidemic of single mothers, and means men don't value the society they live in nearly as much if they don't have kids of their own. Bad times all around.
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