by Jenab6 » Sun 04 Jun 2006, 13:37:03
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kylon', 'T')his is going to sound awful,
But when TSHF, women will start figuring out compliments and reasons why your brilliant, and will be willing probably to marry you, in order to survive.
The capacity to provide, and prevent death is a strong aphrodisiac, in times of great crisis.
Many truths sound awful, not-nice, or impolite. But it's important to keep all the truths that are relevant to our situation fresh in mind, so that the aversion to unpleasantness won't become a denial of reality. Once a denial of reality happens, it can quickly become popular, and, if there's no immediate correction, the false beliefs that have replaced the unpleasant truths can become mandatory beliefs, as in "required by law."
That, by the way, is a tell-tale sign. Truth hardly ever has laws that require belief in them. As far as I know, only lies have received the kind of support that makes a heresy of dissent to them.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kylon', 'B')ut when TSHF, women will start figuring out compliments and reasons why your brilliant, and will be willing probably to marry you, in order to survive. The capacity to provide, and prevent death is a strong aphrodisiac, in times of great crisis.
That matches my experience also. Women nearly always go for what seems the better deal to them at the moment they make their decision. When circumstances change, they bail out of one arrangement (or they try their best to do so) and attempt to get a better one - not always in that order.
Circumstances can complicate the life of the relationship hopping female. If she has children by her former male provider, do they impose on her an impediment when she would switch to another mate? Often they will. In that case, what will she do about it? Will she abandon her ambition, or will she kill her children in order to raise her eligibility?
Age is another complication. Men wax in attractiveness further into life than women do; her flower fades faster than his does. Knowing this puts a certain pressure on the female: she must finalize her marital choice while advantage is on her side. If she waits too long, she will have to settle for less. If she waits longer still, she might end up with nothing, no support in her old age, and hence a miserable dependence on grudging charity or an even more miserable death.
Life is a deadly game, and the possibility of winning goes only to the serious players. Men who understand the rules correctly will have to do some harsh things with regard to women that their natural inclination toward kindliness would rather them not do, except that circumstances require them.
For example, what does a man do when he discovers that a women he takes into his home in good faith is plotting to betray him to be murdered by another man, so that they can appropriate his house and goods? Do you kill her? Do you kill her
before or
after you kill the other man? Do you tell her what you know before you kill her? Do you believe her assurances that she will abandon her conspiracy with the other man and betray him as she had previously planned to betray you? What if she has borne you children already: should you kill her anyway, even if this would deprive them of their mother?
Such things need to be thought through before acting on them becomes necessary.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kylon', 'N')ah, what you do, is get other MEN to do the work, meanwhile you and your hoes get down and funky.
You focus your work time on keeping power, controlling resources, and taking over territory that other people have.
Then you enslave the people you find there, install goons/thugs/cronies, to keep the order, and tax tribute from them.
You'd have to do this, because it's not the person who owns the land that gets it's benefits, its the person who controls the land.
You can have all the titles you want, all the titles in the world, but if there isn't any police force, and your up against a gang of stronger, more powerful people, and you can't defend what's yours, your screwed.
The warlord game will be one played by many. But it's a game in which the odds are against the competitors: in any given region, many may play, but only one will win. All others will die.
How about this? If someone tries to throw you off your house, you go quietly. You stay gone a week or two. Then you return and poison the house water supply. Or you ambush your enemy from a place of concealment with a gun that you had the foresight to bury or hide deep in a cave somewhere. Once your foes are dead, you return to your house and reoccupy it, flushing out the water system if necessary.