It is true.
I have seen droppings.

I think David should meet Jane, so she can get revenge against Steven since he's been bumping uglies with Michelle.

I couldn't care less about a man's choice there.

Having said that, if you have ever viewed an
over-80 guy at the gym wearing too-short boxers,
well, just roll my eyeballs right on down the hall.
(I won't be wanting them back.)

is not really understanding the problems.
making simple things too complex, and looking for ways to make the complex oversimplified and easily digested.


Do you perceive a problem because you think you don't have what your grandparents do/did?


Dawn of humans?

What are the actual issues:

There you go.
That's ultimately the problem.
When do people have to deal with how they feel?
When they don't feel good, something feels bad, and/or how they expect they should feel isn't how they are feeling.
What keeps people from feeling good? Oppression against freedom to immediately gratify perceived needs and wants, too many or too few choices.
What makes people feel bad? Fear.
What teaches expectations? The village that raised them and they continue to live.


The only reason to have a lasting romantic relationship is for the purposes of child creation in order to provide a child a stable enough environment to keep it alive long enough, and trained enough, to be able to survive in the environment in which it exists, and for multigenerational goal fulfillment (e.g. buy land, build a home and business, pass it to the next gen, perpetuate family/family name)
i.e. family and kids.

Perpetual long term emotional gratification for the sake of emotional gratification from a single source, or worship of an idea (love) as a new god and sole reason for existence of the relationship, is simply not something people are capable of.


IMO not really.
No positive, no negative.
It's just change. Everything has good consequences, everything has bad consequences.
People are still motivated by the same things they've been motivated by for hundreds of thousands of years.
There is no advancement, there is only determining what works for a while as the most efficient means of fulfilling the perceived needs of the people in your perceived group, and the most efficient means of climbing to the highest rung of the social hierarchy in order to guarantee the group effort lands on you before other people.

i.e. 'whoever is first in line gets first shot. whoever kills the woolly mammoth gets to eat the liver.'

Nothing really "advances."
We're all just competing for the best place in line to guarantee we're the ones that benefit the most after everyone has weakened the woolly mammoth, while maintaining a safe distance so when the woolly mammoth charges and begins to eat people we are in a position to outrun the next guy.


Dependent has come to have a lot of negative connotations.
But we have not become independent.
No real such thing as independent.
People are interdependent.
More so now than ever.
Now there is a greater need for individual specialization.
That makes people overly dependent upon people they don't know. Strangers.
Overly dependent upon strangers = lack of identity.
Not enough relevant feedback to cement their place in a community.
People overcompensate for that lack of identity (communal, social, relevance) by seeking out more validation of individual identity rather than expanded group role.

People simply pay lip service to the idea that they are independent.
People espousing their "independence" are simply attempting to politely say "I'm better than you. I deserve the good stuff."
It's a means of self valuing out of a lack of enough meaningful community feedback or validation.


The more things change the more they stay the same, while a lot of people seem to build their expectations on that something will be different, better, easier.