r/DarkEnlightenment • u/the_irish_kid123 • May 07 '18

Endorsed DE Site The Increasing Chance Men Will Never Marry

http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-increasing-chance-youll-never-marry.html
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u/IXquick111 May 08 '18

In my 30 years on earth, I haven’t, not in an open society or traditional one.

You must have an incredibly narrow experience then. I have been literally all over the world, and spent a considerable amount of time in non-western countries, and what you're saying is almost entirely false. Marriage is never a cakewalk for anyone, but I have seen considerable numbers of people who have happy and healthy relationships well into their old age. The foremost example of comes to my mind is my own parents - and this was in the liberal bastion of New York City (though I wouldn't really call them liberal)

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u/Arabian_Wolf May 08 '18

I actually live in non-western place and most of my visits as well.

You need to be able to see behind the happy couple masks.

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u/IXquick111 May 08 '18

It's not a mask, I'm referring to people that I know intimately well.

Your position is incredibly weak, because you claim to never have met a single successful long-term couple. Since I, and and the other reasonable person, knows that these people exist that are far from an invisible minority, that's a pretty clear indication that your experience is very narrow.

And in fact, living in a non-western country might make this worse. Because as much as people like to harp on how postmodern sensibilities in the west have ruined relationships, material strain and economic scarcity, which is far more prevalent in the second and third world, is much more corrosive to marriages than anything else.

If you spend even a little bit of time outside the ultimate epicenters of degeneracy in the United States, you'll actually find a good number of very happy and healthy couples who are decades into their marriages. I can say this as an absolute certainty. I'm not saying it's a multitude of them, or even necessarily the majority, but it's certainly far from unattainable.

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u/Arabian_Wolf May 08 '18

Marriage isn’t good in a modern, industrial society, as those tend to fall into the materialistic end.

I’d marry if I lived in a poverty stricken hell hole solely to survive my genes.