tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post6481714493491390132..comments2024-03-22T11:14:05.861-04:00Comments on UncleBob's Treehouse: "What is the best system for finding and choosing a wife or husband?"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-74890011418914900582016-01-27T12:25:44.207-05:002016-01-27T12:25:44.207-05:00"Any evidence to back up your claim?"
E..."Any evidence to back up your claim?"<br /><br />Ever heard of White Flight? Former urban-dwellers from 1965-1995 weren't over-extending themselves on suburban mortgages and slogging through hour-long commutes in heavy traffic solely because they liked having bigger yards.<br /><br />It's almost certainly not a coincidence that urban crime started climbing when the "Great Society" kicked off, nor that it dropped rapidly right after mid-90s welfare reform and longer prison sentences.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-18345505712013717832016-01-27T11:27:52.966-05:002016-01-27T11:27:52.966-05:00"with his rod that his Bible exhorted him to ..."with his rod that his Bible exhorted him to do"<br /><br />So few know that "rod" was the one to guide sheep, not hit them.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-82030251226910237122016-01-27T10:27:15.351-05:002016-01-27T10:27:15.351-05:00Well, the last words I said to my father for fifte...Well, the last words I said to my father for fifteen years after beating him bloody was an ultimatum in which I informed him that if he ever dared wield authority over me he would pay with his life. Of course, the context was he was about to chastise me with his rod that his Bible exhorted him to do, and since he thought his authority over me cam from his god, there was nothing I could do about it. He learned painfully what utter lies his god, his Bible and his church really were. I think you can guess this is not something I would favor and I'm hardly the only one.<br /><br />However, looking back on it now that I'm married myself, I seem to have become my father. I am married with a mundane career and a mortgage and two stepchildren in their 20's one of whom can't seem to distinguish her arse from her elbow. (Name a dysfunctional way to behave and she's done it.) <br /><br />Nevertheless, assuming that he had some other incentive than to punish me for my insubordination, my Dad probably would have done about as well as I did choosing a spouse. She's not perfect and neither am I. In an imperfect world, that's about the best you can expect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-48778352302989720592016-01-27T09:06:31.714-05:002016-01-27T09:06:31.714-05:00"Any evidence to back up your claim?"
H..."Any evidence to back up your claim?"<br /><br />How about I've been it many times, including in my own family? Know what Henry Rollins said? "Knowledge without experience is bullshit." I've got both.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-12045747890267577102016-01-27T01:28:09.641-05:002016-01-27T01:28:09.641-05:00MGTOW'd Out Says...
The best system is the on...MGTOW'd Out Says...<br /><br />The best system is the one currently in place--individual choice without undue influence by outsiders.<br /><br />"Much of the seemingly-irrational financial excesses of middle-class American life are really driven by parents' need to remove their children from the presence of the dysfunctional human wreckage caused by the managerial welfare state."<br /><br />Any evidence to back up your claim?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-31426919251169089692016-01-26T17:18:58.366-05:002016-01-26T17:18:58.366-05:00Another way to achieve the same result without dir...Another way to achieve the same result without directly arranging marriages is with chaperoned events that employ pre-screening for "the right kind of lads" from "good families". This was the upper-class Victorian approach, for example; they let young men and women flirt rather freely at balls and social luncheons and the like, but made sure that no riff-raff were present to join in the flirting (and that nobody was allowed to sneak off to the hayloft unsupervised). In Western Europe, this approach was probably more common than arranged marriages <i>per se</i>- "<i>Here is the list of acceptable men, dearie. You can pick your favorite, but only from among these</i>".<br /><br />I suspect this is the main reason that middle-class parents today still insist on junior getting into "the best college" possible, even though they're money pits, and the students learn nothing of value while getting indoctrinated with leftist agitprop. If you can get your son or daughter into Harvard, odds are good that he or she will date only other people who were smart and motivated enough to get into Harvard. Sure, having junior stay home a few years while bussing tables and taking night classes makes more financial sense, but do you really want junior to start dating some high-school dropout waitress or line cook who sells grass on the side for extra cash?<br /><br />Much of the seemingly-irrational financial excesses of middle-class American life are really driven by parents' need to remove their children from the presence of the dysfunctional human wreckage caused by the managerial welfare state.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-91018425381739314302016-01-26T15:51:53.840-05:002016-01-26T15:51:53.840-05:00Charlton's right, but it doesn't mean the ...Charlton's right, but it doesn't mean the rest of the manosphere is wrong. Charlton's key contribution here is pointing out the evolutionary pressure was on the parents of young women- not the young women themselves. <br /><br />PUA, and all this other crap exists in a milieu were the young women pick, and everybody is attempting to thwart biology- i.e. have lots of sex without very much reproduction. This is why they keep doing crap that seems stupid- they didn't face the evolutionary pressure, so gene selection for young women who could think straight and marry the right guy hasn't happened. <br />Augusthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08758314961163692341noreply@blogger.com