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I a friend of mine—I’ll refer to him as “Esok”—and I have this ongoing debate about family and economics. I am a man, age 27, who has long since gone his own way. I was never very popular with the opposite sex, but after discovery of this sight I have since decided that was for the better. I am the man who women think about when they say “where have all the good men gone?” Where did I (we) go? You shooed us away.</p>
He is middle-aged, a former “player,” and has been married (and divorced) once. On the occasions I pay him a visit, and I decide to exercise my red-pill philosophy, he likes to scold me for being “bitter” about the opposite sex despite “never having had a girlfriend before.” Yes it’s true. But hell, we all know that rattlesnakes can seriously hurt people, but does that really mean I have to go out and let one bite me so I can learn that first hand? That is how I liken my unwillingness to get involved with women, from the horror stories I regularly read on here.</p>
Not very well matched are we?</p>
Here’s what I want your opinion on, the follow statement, to quote, Uncle Esok: “In my college days, I was a devout Marxist, or at least a ‘fellow traveler.’ I learned many things, including the fact that Marx actually didn’t know beans about economics. However, he did have a good grasp of social structure. And Marx pointed out family structure was an efficient form of economics.”
That is something that he, Esok, believes to this day. Though I find it a bit hard to take it from a man who has never had any children or has otherwise been involved in creating a family himself. What do you guys make of this?
Hrmmm…if i might, LD, it seems i have had similar educational experiences. I think what your unkle esok might have been saying is that family structure is a function of economics; in essense, that people’s interrelationships are very much influenced by the economic structure of the times and places they live in. Marx was a blithering idiot in many ways, but he did hit some nails squarely on the head. They say even a blind pig’ll find an acorn every now and then.
Cheers!
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