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Laran Mithras's avatar

I'll add a step to this.

Sexual pleasure has become the salve for dissatisfaction. "If it feels good, do it" has become the psycho-pharmaceutical remedy providing dopamine hits.

The culture simply needs to return to (and reinforce that) morality and God are the ultimate answers. Women will respond inherently. Those nurturing and caring genes will kick in and right the boat. But we must provide them that avenue or they will continue to reach for the "easiest" remedies: phony/empty and repetitive sexual gratification.

SK's avatar

Chasing highs cannot "make you happy" because by definition you cannot be high all the time. The vast majority of the high-chasers time is spent not being high, and because chasing highs is their focus, they do nothing to cultivate a happy most-of-the-time. To be happy most of the time requires contentment, not dopamine. It's geniuinely a maladaptive strategy that cannot logically succeed.

J.R. Logan's avatar

How do these romance writers stack up to D.H. Lawrence or Anaïs Nin?

SK's avatar

Neutrality is for people of middling intelligence and middling morality. They are not smart enough to say what is truly correct and not moral enough to say what is truly right. Unable to face their own inadequacies, they pretend at both of them instead by spouting the timeless widsom of teenagers, "Whatever."

NIGELTEAPOT's avatar

the dissident right is basically this but with a veneer of "greco-roman" civilization, liberals on opposite day. they love the evil, but only if it has the proper "aesthetics." No problem with pedophilia as long as it's in the "proper" bathhouse done by musclemen, no problem with devilry as long as it's done by people quoting neitzche to ascend their "vitality" (aka semen) into the antichrist.

that's the real issue we are going to have to deal with once the whore of babylon of "the left" outlives its usefulness after creating the "red ceasar" antichrist.

THAT is the ploy at play here! All this is just moths to prompt the creation of mothballs.