:-] If bait this be then baited I am. I’ll speak to the subject of polyamory. But as usual for such subjects I’ll be speaking to what David, the author, said from the perspective of a contra-social philosopher on horseback and retired grand master of paranoid conspiracy theorists, international. Ok, semi-retired. GM-CT is one of those things where there really is no retirement, just extended sabbaticals. The idiots can always call you back by just being… idiots… on a larger scale.
I’m of a mind to think the rise of polyamory is best understood as being one of those mandatory proof of politically correct social compliance fads so terribly common among the Enlightened Liberal folks. More than that, I’ll toss my nickel down on the square that says the whole fad and affair is actually a false flag attack launched by the ultra-conservative set to degrade and diminish the long term survival chances of their adversary, the enlightened liberal bunch. Say what? How would that work? An easy answer, if you actually understand both the pros and cons of living poly.
It is a fact that the survival of a culture is NOT the survival of the individuals within today’s version of that culture but rather how that culture fares in the generations to come. It can also be argued that children will fare just as well with three daddies and five mommies as growing up with one of each. Eh, maybe, just depending on the ultimate quality and maturity of those eight, or two, individuals providing the parenting to the children. Pretty much a case by case thing you really can’t predict without actually knowing the players involved.
What you can predict though are the odds of the sort of fully mature individuals capable of providing high quality parenting coming out of an environment that compromises a little understood and totally critical last phase of personal development. But it isn’t the children who receive their early nurture in a poly family that are at risk, no, it isn’t.
It is a fact that none of us are fully grown up when we think we are. None of us. Our parents get us to the point we can make our own way in the world, but it isn’t until we pick a mate and with all due and deliberate diligence set about raising that person to be the best version of them that they can be that we acquire in ourselves the requisite parts and pieces inside ourselves for them to do the exact same job for us.
The problem with polyamory has nothing to do with sleeping arrangements and everything to do with the level of dedicated, one on one, focus required to accomplish what is spoken of in the paragraph above. When younger folks who’ve never known or even seen successful monogamy enter a polyamorous relationship the polyamory dilutes that focus and effort. The more “spouses” involved the greater the dilution. At some point, again case by case individual by individual, the dilution of love will go below some critical minimum and all of those uncomfortable but totally necessary facets of maturity involved with things like accountability and responsibility fail to launch and what you’re left with is problematic at best, and more often than not disastrously emotionally incompetent when matched against any serious life loading like parenting the generation to follow their own.
So yea, for the ultra conservative set to seriously compromise the viability of the enlightened liberal set of say 2065 or so all they have to do is talk enough of today’s youngsters into going poly as a first adventure in marriage, sit back and let developmental psychology have its’ way with the kids. Forty years down the road the neurotic snowflake count will be so sky high they’ll be an impotent demographic and fall right off the map. The liberal cause will be kaput and the conservatives will be unopposed in their delusions of self destructive grandeur.
That… would not be good for America, which is why I’ll give the Liberals warning… enguarde! This polyamory thing isn’t what you think it is.
October 2, 2022 @ 11:52 pm
:-] If bait this be then baited I am. I’ll speak to the subject of polyamory. But as usual for such subjects I’ll be speaking to what David, the author, said from the perspective of a contra-social philosopher on horseback and retired grand master of paranoid conspiracy theorists, international. Ok, semi-retired. GM-CT is one of those things where there really is no retirement, just extended sabbaticals. The idiots can always call you back by just being… idiots… on a larger scale.
I’m of a mind to think the rise of polyamory is best understood as being one of those mandatory proof of politically correct social compliance fads so terribly common among the Enlightened Liberal folks. More than that, I’ll toss my nickel down on the square that says the whole fad and affair is actually a false flag attack launched by the ultra-conservative set to degrade and diminish the long term survival chances of their adversary, the enlightened liberal bunch. Say what? How would that work? An easy answer, if you actually understand both the pros and cons of living poly.
It is a fact that the survival of a culture is NOT the survival of the individuals within today’s version of that culture but rather how that culture fares in the generations to come. It can also be argued that children will fare just as well with three daddies and five mommies as growing up with one of each. Eh, maybe, just depending on the ultimate quality and maturity of those eight, or two, individuals providing the parenting to the children. Pretty much a case by case thing you really can’t predict without actually knowing the players involved.
What you can predict though are the odds of the sort of fully mature individuals capable of providing high quality parenting coming out of an environment that compromises a little understood and totally critical last phase of personal development. But it isn’t the children who receive their early nurture in a poly family that are at risk, no, it isn’t.
It is a fact that none of us are fully grown up when we think we are. None of us. Our parents get us to the point we can make our own way in the world, but it isn’t until we pick a mate and with all due and deliberate diligence set about raising that person to be the best version of them that they can be that we acquire in ourselves the requisite parts and pieces inside ourselves for them to do the exact same job for us.
The problem with polyamory has nothing to do with sleeping arrangements and everything to do with the level of dedicated, one on one, focus required to accomplish what is spoken of in the paragraph above. When younger folks who’ve never known or even seen successful monogamy enter a polyamorous relationship the polyamory dilutes that focus and effort. The more “spouses” involved the greater the dilution. At some point, again case by case individual by individual, the dilution of love will go below some critical minimum and all of those uncomfortable but totally necessary facets of maturity involved with things like accountability and responsibility fail to launch and what you’re left with is problematic at best, and more often than not disastrously emotionally incompetent when matched against any serious life loading like parenting the generation to follow their own.
So yea, for the ultra conservative set to seriously compromise the viability of the enlightened liberal set of say 2065 or so all they have to do is talk enough of today’s youngsters into going poly as a first adventure in marriage, sit back and let developmental psychology have its’ way with the kids. Forty years down the road the neurotic snowflake count will be so sky high they’ll be an impotent demographic and fall right off the map. The liberal cause will be kaput and the conservatives will be unopposed in their delusions of self destructive grandeur.
That… would not be good for America, which is why I’ll give the Liberals warning… enguarde! This polyamory thing isn’t what you think it is.