Enjoy (video, 51:19).
The American psychologist Helen Smith was the author of Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream – and Why It Matters (2015). Today her new book His Side: Men Speak Out on Dating, Marriage, and Life in America was published.
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Finally got time to watch this. Fantastic discussion. Dr. Smith’s directness and candor really is refreshing. I suppose much of this is not new but the dialogue enables a lot of ground to be covered.
On a small point I’ve taken to “supporting” the inclusion of polygamous marriage (in its widest definition of multiple wives or husbands) in discussions. As a “test”. For if the only reason for “marriage” or a legally sanctioned partnership is people “lurve” each other, and people can “lurve” multiple people over their life (lots of widows or divorcees remarry) what’s wrong with multiple partners who are “in love”? Now of course its not because I necessarily think any of its sensible but I’ve yet to have any sensible reply, because in a society that is all about feelings and emotion there isn’t any real reason.
Of course being a church goer (not Cof E) people fall back on procreation and children, as is still in most religious ceremonies, in other words wider obligations other than “lurve”. Of course it amuses me the confusion I cause as one set of ideas clashes with another.
It struck me that this dialogue between the Dr. and Paul Elam describes processes that are all to evident in the appalling mess in so many “aboriginal” cultures across the world as their traditional basis is eroded by welfarism and aimlessness and the results include collapse in families, social roles, community and they become sites of alcoholism, drugs, crime, loneliness and fear. Its not like we don’t have “matriarchal” “matrilocal” societies to observe at close hand …. the “black” community in the US, the Afro Carribean in the UK or “Sink Estates”. Apathy, distrust, absences of fairness, justice, responsibility, effort. Non of it “rocket science” yet we turndle along supposedly wondering why such an easy and affluent society as we still have in “the west” can be beset by so many growing problems of social collapse.
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