sexual restraint for thee but not for me obvious exception for literal bondagehttps://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/996474413045440512 …
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also in the atomised social age, moral policing of private behavior is basically infeasible theres no social monolith nor even subcultures anymore no more ways to make a paraiah the final triumph of Exit
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I do think he might be right for certain populations. Something something high time preference. Not everyone does well long-term with an expanded choice set.https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/963223726597656578 …
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but the old approach of social shaming is dead, dead, dead, and people like him who try to revive these things are basically just cosplaying Herbert West
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Modern day order: sex --> romance -->serial monogamy vs. forced order: marriage --> sex of the old days probably has ppl feeling equally repressed across the ages, as the social restraints on sex of the past have equally depressing implications on ppl restrained by their freedom.
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I think this is probably correct. Something something Robin Hanson

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The Hansonian argument is that humans, having become collectively rich and untethered from survival needs, are reverting from "forced" farmer norms, which prized stable familial structures, to more "natural feeling" forager norms and their related sexual/relationship structures.
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If Hanson's argument of farmer -> forager norm shift is correct, I expect that the sexual revolution will be seen historically as one of the main turning points toward forager values.
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Um, actually, the biggest shift will be considered evolution away from people who use contraception.
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hahaha yeah I wonder about that
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start paying mothers who have kids so they can stay at home, make divorce harder to get, put more legal restrictions on porn
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I feel fine-to-positive about the first point, mixed-to-negative about the second, and the third is totally impossible. :/ I would guess the status quo ante . . . bellum? was enforced less by legal constraints and more by economic and social ones, and those are right out, now.
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cf your earlier thoughts on triumph of Liberalism post-1848... how could you even reconstitute a Monarchical Right? "God and the King!" but neither the aristocrats nor the Church even _want_ the power
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