30-year-olds cruising bars for no-strings hook-ups are less a sign of cultural decadence than of pessism, visionlessness & desperation When people are doing what you’d expect if an asteroid were going to hit the earth in 24 hours, it’s not because they’re too happy
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Replying to @webdevMason
I think it's neither decadent not desperation, but rather bad societal expectations. Between old-fashioned Puritan attitude to relationship outside of marriage and what the US has now, is a happy middle: you're expected to settle down by a certain age, 1/
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But everyone will agree to a "grace period" where nobody will be too uptight about experimenting with no strings attached relationship to try and test the feild. 2/2
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Replying to @CantCSharp
You can plot yourself arbitrarily on the spectrum from Puritanism to unbarred experimentation without creating entirely transactional short-term relationships — it’s not these are unethical, it’s that they’re soul-destroying
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Trying to understand what you mean: "it's not the multiple relation but the fact they each one lack emotional attachment"? Or are you arguing that the nature of going from stranger to partner and back again in less than a few hours is the issue (time wise)?
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I’m arguing that engaging a person for anything with zero intention of ever seeing them again afterward implies a purely transactional attitude toward them. This is fine if you’re, say, buying coffee from them.
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