tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post2419331303682921695..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: A Modern Marriage in TroubleStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-60712803503866760312018-09-12T05:55:47.256-07:002018-09-12T05:55:47.256-07:00Re my previous comment, Daniel Greenfield has intr...Re my previous comment, Daniel Greenfield has introduced the term "Fully Automated Luxury Communism"<br /><br />https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271266/luxury-socialism-and-end-working-left-daniel-greenfieldDavid Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-43308158268784701292018-09-11T15:32:43.421-07:002018-09-11T15:32:43.421-07:00Thought experiment: Many analysts believe that au...Thought experiment: Many analysts believe that automation will progress--fairly quickly--to the point where work, for the vast majority of people, will no longer be a thing. I don't think they're right...but what if they are?...so that everyone lives like minor aristocracy.<br /><br />How might this influence the relationship between the sexes?David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-59618416469393502292018-09-11T15:11:32.711-07:002018-09-11T15:11:32.711-07:00In common with breadwinning and protecting is the ...In common with breadwinning and protecting is the idea of responsibility. In general, the man feels reponsible for the family's means of living and safety. Undermining this puts men in conflict with their essence by forcing them to act as if they are okay with being something other that what they are. (The same could be said of women, but about different matters.) Inner conflicts such as these do not end well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-67148755243465905852018-09-11T13:20:22.450-07:002018-09-11T13:20:22.450-07:00re Breadwinners, Warriors, Recipients of Family We...re Breadwinners, Warriors, Recipients of Family Wealth and Bad Boys....there's an interesting passage in Hans Fallada'a novel of Weimar Germany, "Little Man, What Now?" The main characters in the story are a likable young couple, Sonny and Lammchen, trying to survive in very difficult economic circumstances. One day, they are treated to a movie...in the context of the overall story, a play-within-the-play.<br /><br />The movie's protagonist is a young bank clerk, who makes very little money and is desperately afraid that his wife will leave him for his financial failings. One day, he thinks how easy it would be to steal some money, and his hand actually moves toward the pile of cash. He is observed by the Management Trainee, son of the bank's owner, who takes pity on him and starts helping him out with money.<br /><br />He cannot bear to tell his wife that he is a recipient of charity, and tells her instead that he is embezzling the money. She is thrilled: "You're doing that? For me?"<br /><br />Then the Management Trainee falls in love with the clerk's wife...but she will not leave her husband, with whom she is now totally enthralled. Then, on day, the he tells her about the charity...and she now feels only total contempt for the husband. The MT and the wife both laugh at the clerk, and leave together.<br /><br />At the end of the movie, Sonny is so shattered...seeing such a parallel between the clerk's situation and his own...that he cannot even get up out of his seat.<br /><br />Note the implied priorities of attractiveness:<br /><br />--The husband the Thief is more attractive than the Management Trainee, the recipient of family money.<br />--But the Management Trainee is more attractive than the husband the Charity Recipient.<br /><br />It is not made clear whether the husband the Mere Bank Clerk would have been kept by his wife or ditched in favor of the MT, had the charity and faux larceny never occurred.<br /><br />David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-67720245570692741172018-09-11T07:45:50.780-07:002018-09-11T07:45:50.780-07:00To be clearer, the role of breadwinner involves bo...To be clearer, the role of breadwinner involves both providing and protecting, Warriors contribute. Yet, in Native American tribes, absent a male breadwinner role, we do not find a great deal of prosperity. As for male aristocrats, they often used family wealth to provide for their families and engaged in combat to protect them. On the other side, they also tended toward decadence... which is one reason why the aristocratic order was overthrown. Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-84906747566646149232018-09-11T07:00:47.058-07:002018-09-11T07:00:47.058-07:00"The male breadwinner role is more or less un..."The male breadwinner role is more or less universal."<br /><br />Except that in some societies, the primary male role is more *warrior* than it is breadwinner. cf many Native American tribes.<br /><br />And what would we say of the male aristocrats of, say, 18th-century England?...some of them were military officers, but many seem to have devoted their time to some combination of recreational hunting, drinking, socializing, and (in a few cases) scholarly study. Management of their estates was often done by a hired agent.<br /><br />Was Jane Austen's Mr Darcy a breadwinner?David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-81535968973307452582018-09-11T06:38:11.277-07:002018-09-11T06:38:11.277-07:00I would only add that if you reversed the sexes, t...I would only add that if you reversed the sexes, the situation would be more familiar. Husband dedicated to his career, neglecting his wife? It must be his fault then.Bill Peschelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15257587479467531187noreply@blogger.com