Why expose yourself to the court system...in this 'throw-away' American culture these days?
IMO, this is also a by-product of the prevalence of internet porn readily available to anybody of any age.
Why expose yourself to the court system...in this 'throw-away' American culture these days?
IMO, this is also a by-product of the prevalence of internet porn readily available to anybody of any age.
Marriage and the family have been changing for quite some time. Certainly long before Gore invented the Internet.
I personally think it has a lot to do with the ease of travel and communication these days. A couple hundred years ago your only options within 100 square miles of your farm might have been Sue, Sally and Jane. You're a lot more likely to stay faithful to and in love with Sue when you don't even have a means of communicating with anybody outside of your vicinity. These days you might meet 20 or 30 attractive single women just during your day at work. You've got the internet, text messaging, and going half way around the world to meet somebody is actually feasible.
Marriage rates in the inner city has dropped off the table in recent decades. The so-called "nuclear family" is a rarity there. Interesting that the decline coincided with the War on Poverty.
We can thank the leftist sexual "revolution" for most of the problems we have now.
"Free" love has been anything but free.
In fact, it has enslaved those who follow it, and destroyed the fabric of this nation.
Thanks to leftists, we have no core, no family, no moral center, nothing on which to base a decent society.
"The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals’ expansion of the welfare state. Most black children grew up in homes with two parents during all that time, but most grow up with only one parent today." - Thomas Sowell
Why expose yourself to the court system...in this 'throw-away' American culture these days?
IMO, this is also a by-product of the prevalence of internet porn readily available to anybody of any age.
Yes. I am reminded of the annual Thanksgiving Dinner at the m-i-l's home each year. She has the tradition of asking everyone to say what they are grateful for - a nice tradition. Anyway, it is inevitable that one of my wife's nieces will be grateful for something like "Hope and Change" or "gay marriage". I bristle and will always express my gratitude for traditional values, for the fruits of those things that served us so well for so long.
Millennials indicate that they value and place equal importance to relationships they have with people online versus those they know in real life.
If only the millennials would begin to understand that those "things that served us so well for so long" are critical to their futures.
Unfortunately, they have been brainwashed to believe that everything that came before them in America was bad, and that things only improved when the left grabbed control and started their swath of destruction, so they support "hope and change" as a good thing, even though it has furthered our demise as a nation.
Frankly, I don't know how we fix this.
The argument can easily be made that drawing a distinction between "online" and "real life" and attributing those differences to Millenials is not accurate. More prevalent yes, but not exclusive.
"Virtual" relationships have existed for a long time. Pen pals would have people who may have never known one another develop strong, life-long relationships, and old relationships have been maintained via the telephone since its invention.
The Internet just made the process easier.
Many (if not most) of us here in this site are not Millenials, but the relationships we have with one another can become very real.
My best friend is an ex-Freeper. We've been friends for a long time. He lives in another State and we've only "seen" each other about half a dozen times, yet there is no denying that our friendship is very real
I would argue that online friendships can be just as and even sometimes more sincere and meaningful than real life ones. I believe that because in real life people are very fake. Somebody might talk to you just because they think they have something to gain. Maybe they want to take advantage of you in some way. Maybe they're only friends with you because you have money or wield power/influence. These things can happen online, but I feel the degree to which they happen is greatly diminished. If you and I are good friends online it is because we click on a purely intellectual level. There is no ulterior motive other than the fact that I really enjoy talking to you.
I don't entirely disagree with this, although in my own observation of Millennials (which is substantial being a college professor) I think they can be overly trusting of online relationships. Assuming you are right, it only serves to illustrate why Millennials are not having babies, opting instead to have safe Skype sex with no strings attached.
It is true that navigating real life is a lot more difficult and confusing. I don't really blame Millennials for not wanting to do it. I guess what I lament is the fact that we have made it so easy for them to escape.
It's the way of the future. For better or for worse people are becoming and will continue to become more immersed in technology. Technology addiction is a real thing, and I think it will become a very real problem in years to come. Imagine how bad it will be when virtual reality really comes to fruition. Why would anybody ever want to be in the real world when they can escape to their virtual paradise?
We are indeed on a slippery slope.
9/11 forced us to gut check ourselves. It was short-lived and, as traumatic as it was, not intense enough or long enough. I know that is a hard thing to wrap our thoughts around. I think only an existential threat that is felt in our collective being will halt the slide. I pray we can survive. As Ronald Reagan said, we are only a generation away from extinction. That generation may have beating hearts.
mass wrote above (with insight):
[[ The bigger problem is not that people are rejecting marriage, but that they are not having children...]]
Yet, if I were to say that birth control should be banned for Euro-American women, you would reply that such a thought is misogynist, anti-freedom, unconstitutional, etc.
But that's the only way the birth rates of Euros will ever rise naturally again.
Instead, I expect to see white birth rates continue to decline, as whites literally begin to "lose faith" in their futures and themselves in the onslaught of everything that is "anti-white" in our culture.
Just sayin'...
mass wrote above:
[[ The long term inheritors of the USA are Hispanic. The long term inheritors of Europe are Muslim. It's not going to occur in my lifetime, but it is inevitable. ]]
It will only be "inevitable" if we LET it be so.
We held off the Hispanics from the south for years. If not for border controls, what is happening now would have happened sooner. But national policy kept the southern border in check. I will concede that such policies have been dismantled, and the policy of the left is to flood America with Hispanics in an attempt to build a permanent and growing nonwhite majority.
Europe does not have to be muslim. I have written more than once what options the Europeans have for their future:
1. Boxcars,
or
2. Burqhas.
They must choose option #1 if they wish to survive as a culture and as a race. If they refuse to do this, they WILL end up with option #2.
Having said that, what do you expect whites to do?
Simply lay down and surrender?
Marriage and the family have been changing for quite some time. Certainly long before Gore invented the Internet.That's IF they even get a chance to be born.(http://www.heritage.org/~/media/images/reports/2010/b2465/b2465_chart2.ashx?w=500&h=613&as=1)(http://www.prb.org/images10/usyoungadultmarriage.gif)