2/ Engagement rings are a product of early 20th century sexual revolution. "Traditional social technology" of no premarital sex was dying, and rings were escrow against sex-and-then-the-engamement-is-broken. That joke "we know what you are, now we're haggling"? Engagement rings
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3/ I'm a tradcon myself. I just roll my eyes at Twitter tradcons who think that whatever they see in old Coke ads and Leave It To Beaver reruns is the entirety of traditional civilization.
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4/ Ah, I see PG tagged in!https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1200885337792417797?s=19 …
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5/ Didn't think of it until just this moment, but I think that me buying a farm and not a ring because my then-fiancé-now-wife wanted one is the most trad possible alternative. (Except, perhaps, a herd of cattle and no land, which, yes, even more trad). https://twitter.com/OswaldHurlem/status/1200962992080207872?s=19 …
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the ancient social technology is imbuing symbols with weight and power via sacrifice (money, time, effort etc) the symbol merely changes
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True, but the shiny rock has changed.
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I like it when you call me baby
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Not baby. Baby tradcon.
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Diamonds are dumb and well overpriced relative to supply because we pretend it's not a grift of a monopoly, and I'm mad that this con still exists. It's like Nike sneaker collections only much, much worse and less artistic.
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