I was listening to "A World Without Men" by Aaron Clarey, and while I am enjoying most of it, he seems to believe in no uncertain terms that the male sex drive is responsible for civilization because males made the transaction that males make with females (i.e. protection and provision for sex).
I do not believe that the males wanting to make a deal with females of resources for sex is why civilization came about.
> I do not believe that the males wanting to make a deal with females of resources for sex is why civilization came about
Well that's a belief you'll probably need to change since there's great evidence to prove it, or at the very least not disprove that connection.
I'm partway through a huge tome of a book called "Sex and Culture" by JD Unwin who published it in 1934. It's a serious piece of scholarship spanning 5000 years, 6 civilzations and 80 tribes ..
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.. and his conclusions are that:
1. the quality of any civilzation can be measured by the extent to which female sexuality is controlled by men (i.e. from absolute patriarchy to polgamy/polygyny).
2. that civilzational collapses are directly connected to point 1.
For a summary of his work I can recommend the following:
Article: https://arctotherium.substack.com/p/review-of-j-d-unwins-sex-and-culture
Video: https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=nF9NPouGhlk
Unwin's book: https://a.co/d/7B5Pq14
This is likely where Clarey got it from.
I agree with point 1 and 2.
My only issue is that while I do believe MOST men are motivated to improve because of women, it doesn't account for ~10-20% of us.
1. Gays aren't less ambitious
2. Alot of eccentric people that moved society forward like Sir Issac Newton were virgins.
3. As an ex-nerd we all knew we weren't going to get any brownie points with females because we made the honor roll or because our code was clean 😂
We just did it for its own sake.▶️
The problem I have with this take is that it has undertones of:
"Yes women are in general lazy, uninspired and useless to building civilztion outside of child birth.
But al those guys did it for pussy anyway therefore women are JUST that awesome! because without them men would have no muse and accomplish nothing. major"
When in reality in a world without women progress likely would have been made regardless (though I'll admit probly not as quickly )
I think something must have been lost in translation over text.
I was referring to how Clarey explains our current state of affairs, I wasn't disagreeing at all as I agreed with everything you said.
Now as for the video...
@basedbagel @Zeb @DoubleD
You're shooting from the hip in your usual emotional contrary way.
At the very least watch the video, read the article and gain just the slightest bit of insight on a man's lifes work before offering your big brain hot takes.