Your succinctness brought to mind the possibility that you've no interest in the topic, and that's ok with me, too.
I am less offering a solution [to whatever] with the idea of going back to, typically, arranged marriage, than I am amazed at the watershed we passed through as only an unconsidered by-product.
The species, as all animals, begin to procreate as soon as biologically possible. Maybe 12-15 years old. From this coupling is made the fundamental unit of societies, not individuals. This was true in Western Culture clear up to about the settling of our country. True through all the culture that made us a society--the enlightenment, the dark ages, the Classical Roman and Greek, the Biblical Era, the 1st civilizations, across the globe, all the mellinia of prehistory till coming down from the trees. All our morals and religions, our legal foundations, our economies, our way to reason.
Suddenly a couple, three centuries ago we dismantle the whole thing. The rug can be removed and we can cling to other institutions and customs, but those holds keep loosening until something takes its place. What is now taking its place? Seems like the receeding biological clock, and sacrifices like you mention. Look at the likelihood, of the repercussions of our reactive, unfocused decision making. There is the obvious, like marriage and children. But sex is linked to aggression and severe and widespread childhood violence is rising, without any rational accounting. Adolescents deprived of sanctioned sex from age 15 to 30 has some ring of validity to me. Can the choice we are making to fragment into individual cells beyond seeming health another consequence? Is there not likely to be more unforeseen, and difficult to notice, changes ?
I feel, as in Network, that we have tampered with a fundamental force of the universe. The deluge may already be rising, and we don't know what signs to look for. Maybe a natural effect will occur to balance the unnatural cause, but is there not also something we need do to make the effect agreeable? My own, current suggestions are still vague. |
