Our courtship emotions are inappropriate
today
The natural method for a
woman to find a husband is for her to make herself look pretty, put
herself on display in some public area, and wait for men to pursue her.
She pretends that she doesn't have any interest in men, which we
refer to as "playing hard to get", and the men have to ignore her lack
of interest and continue pursuing her.
That method was acceptable in a prehistoric, nomadic tribe, but it is
inappropriate in modern societies. The primary problems with it are:
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Our population is too large.
A prehistoric, nomadic tribe would have had only a few single men and
women, and there was not much contact between the single people of
neighboring tribes. Therefore, the single women only had to deal with a
few single men.
Today a woman in a modern city is living among thousands of single men,
and if she has a job that puts her into contact with the public, she
might encounter single men all throughout the day. Women enjoy being
pursued by single men, but not by dozens of men every day.
To make the situation worse, there are a lot of men today who are
single beyond the age of 30, but women were designed to find a spouse
in their late teenage years and early adult years. Women were not
designed to be pursued by old, lonely men.
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Secrecy
interferes with courtship.
Humans evolved for a social environment in which there was no secrecy.
The people in a nomadic tribe knew every detail about everybody else's
life, including what their bodies looked like. Therefore, when the
single men and women flirted with each other, neither of them had any
questions about what the other person was like.
Our prehistoric ancestors knew each other more intimately than brothers
and sisters today know one another.
They did
not need to ask one another any questions about themselves. Therefore,
when they flirted, it was purely for entertainment. When the women made
themselves look pretty, it was for fun, not to deceive the men about
their appearance. When the men tried to entertain the women with gifts,
it was to impress the women, not deceive the women about their wealth.
By comparison, our modern societies allow so much secrecy that single
men and women today cannot even be certain if the person they are
talking to was born male or female. We
also have no idea who among us is an alcoholic, or who has a problem
gambling, or who has a venereal disease.
The secrecy results in single people, especially women, being cautious,
and
sometimes frightened, of a potential spouse. They are not relaxed, and
they do not enjoy the flirting. Rather, they are uncomfortable and
concerned.
Secrecy also makes it difficult for the men to figure out which women
they should pursue. The intimacy of a prehistoric nomadic tribe allowed
the boys to get a
good idea of which girls were attracted to them, and this resulted in
the men being more likely to pursue the women who had an interest in
them.
By comparison, people today are so secretive and deceptive that the
single men do not know which women are rejecting them because they
truly do not like them, and which are merely playing hard to get.
This can be especially troublesome for an attractive woman who has a
job that puts her into contact with the public. She will be pleasant
and friendly to everybody, so a single man might misinterpret her
friendliness for an attraction to him, which can cause him to waste his
time on a futile pursuit of a woman that doesn't care for him, and it
can irritate the woman.
If the man has certain types of mental problems, he might become so
obsessed with the woman that he stalks her, or pesters her for months
before he gives up.
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We are living among different cultures.
Humans evolved for a homogeneous group of people, but today most
societies are a mixture of cultures and races, especially the USA and
Western Europe. This puts the single people into uncomfortable
situations because they don't know how to behave around one another.
For example, different cultures have different methods for people to
greet one another. Therefore, when a single man meets a single woman,
he will not be certain if he should shake her hand, bow, nod his head,
tip his hat, give her a hug, kiss the air while their cheeks are
touching each other.
People of different cultures also have different foods,
clothing styles, religious practices, and
recreational activities.
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The human race is degrading.
We evolved to live among people that we trust, and who are in good
physical and mental health. We did not
evolve to live among people with
bipolar problems, alcoholism, ADHD, migraine headaches, food allergies,
or deformed bodies. We also did not evolve to live among lonely, older
adults
who are desperate for a spouse.
In a prehistoric, nomadic tribe, all of the single men and women would
have been healthy and capable of taking care of themselves. Therefore,
flirting would have been a fun activity. Today,
however, single people are in a situation that is as unpleasant as a
person
who is looking through the trash at a city dump and trying to find
something valuable.
Single people today have to search
for a spouse. It is a frustrating chore, rather than a relaxed,
pleasant activity.
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Sexual ignorance
causes trouble.
Prehistoric boys and girls picked up detailed and realistic
information about human bodies, sex, childbirth, breast-feeding, and
the roles of men and women.
Today, however, most parents are afraid that sex education will damage
their children, so they keep their children ignorant. This causes many
boys to develop obnoxious obsessions with women's bodies and sex.
Furthermore, businesses cause children to develop unrealistic
expectations of sex, marriage, and weddings. To make the problem even
worse, feminists are teaching children the absurd concept that men and
women are unisex creatures, and that men are sexist. And Hollywood
often portrays women as sexually promiscuous, and giggling at lewd
remarks.
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We should love to
reminisce about being single
Flirting was a pleasant,
relaxed activity in prehistoric
times, and it provided the single people with lots of pleasant
memories, but finding a spouse today is a frustrating, confusing,
time-consuming, and difficult chore to many
or most of us. The men who have trouble finding a wife can also waste a
lot of money on the process. The single people can also annoy the
adults when they gather at
shopping malls, city plazas, and other public locations.
Becoming a teenager and
flirting with the opposite sex should be one of
life's exciting pleasures.
When we get old, we should enjoy reminiscing about that time of our
life. If we develop software to identify people in security videos,
many couples will enjoy requesting
video of themselves when they were young.
Our teenage and early adult
years should be one of the most
exciting times in our life because it is when our mind and body go
through a lot of significant changes. For example, we start to think
for ourselves, and we notice things that we didn't have much of an
interest in when we were children.
It should be a time of our lives that we accumulate a lot of pleasant
memories of doing things with our friends, flirting, exploring the
city, discovering the varieties of foods, developing skills, planning
our future, and discovering sex. Watching video of ourselves at that age should
stimulate pleasant
memories.
If we do not
enjoy our teenage and young adult years, we miss out on
the most exciting portion of our life. Those years are analogous to a
caterpillar becoming a butterfly. It is the time when we transform from
a child to an adult. It is a time when we are the most flirtatious,
good-looking, and healthiest. Those few years should provide us with a
lot of wonderful memories.
Miserable
relationships are a failure of
culture
Although we cannot
determine how many teenagers and young adults are enjoying their
relationships with the opposite sex,
it appears that most Americans
are not
accumulating many pleasant memories of being single and flirting. For
example:
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Americans are
getting married later
in life, and the most likely reason is because many people are having
trouble finding a spouse.
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An increasingly
large percentage of people have so little faith
that they have selected an appropriate spouse that they are living
together without
getting married, sometimes for decades.
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There are so many
people having failed relationships that an increasingly
large percentage is becoming infected
with venereal diseases.
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The increasingly miserable relationships between men and women should
be considered as evidence that our culture is becoming increasingly
inappropriate, and the adults should react by experimenting with it to
improve it. However, no culture encourages people to look critically at
themselves or their culture.
Instead, every culture has evolved to give us what we want, and that is
to boast
about ourselves and our culture. Most parents believe that they are
wonderful parents, and they refuse to consider the possibility that we
need to experiment with our schools, parenting concepts, jobs,
recreational activities, and other culture. However, the miserable
relationships should be regarded as a failure of our culture, not as an
unavoidable characteristic of modern life.
This concept also applies to feminism.
Specifically, an increasingly large
percentage of the women have been complaining about life, and that
should be regarded as a failure
of our culture. The men
should react by experimenting with culture to improve the lives of
women. Men
are responsible for the lives of women because women are naturally
submissive to men, and they expect men to provide them with guidance.
Men are supposed to be leaders,
but most men are so overwhelmed
with modern life that they don't know what to do for the women, or for
themselves or their children. Rather than providing the women with
guidance, most men ignore, pander to, or become angry at the women, and
some men exploit women and
children for money or sex.
In order to reduce the number of miserable teenagers and women, the men
must be willing to take responsibility for our societies, and find the
courage to experiment with our culture.
The misfits will be tormented
One of the most unpleasant
concepts that men must deal with is that even if we could create a
perfect culture, there will continue to be some miserable teenagers and
women
simply because of genetic variations and defects. Therefore, in
addition to experimenting with culture, we must restrict reproduction.
Restricting reproduction to the people with higher-quality genetics
will reduce the percentage of
misfits in every generation, but it cannot prevent them. There will always be
genetic variations in the children, so there will always be a small
percentage of misfits.
This brings up an interesting problem. Specifically, once we begin
restricting reproduction, each generation will become better looking,
more intelligent, more talented, more honest, and more sociable.
Furthermore, as we improve our culture, the recreational activities,
jobs, social affairs, schools, parks, swimming areas, and other aspects
of the city will become increasingly pleasant.
Every year the city will become more like heaven, which would be
wonderful for the people who enjoy it, but it will cause the misfits to
suffer even more. The reason is because the misfits will be constantly
in contact with people who are having wonderful friendships and
marriages, and who love their jobs, school, the recreational and social
activities, and everything else about life. They will be reminded every
day that they are misfits.
By comparison, many of the misfits in the world today do not feel as if
they are misfits. The reason is because they are surrounded by lots of
other miserable people, and they are living in cities that are
miserable. This can make them feel as if they are typical people who
are suffering simply because life is cruel to everybody.
If we were to create a city in which most of the people are
good-looking, intelligent, talented, honest, and in good mental health,
and who have wonderful friendships and marriages, the misfits will
be tormented by watching all of the people around them enjoying life.
They will be in the same sad situation as a crippled child who is
watching other children enjoy life.
The teenagers and young
adults who are ugly, deformed, mentally ill,
sickly, stupid, or who have unusual personalities will not be able to
enjoy be
courtship activities, or their teenage years. Instead, they will be
lonely, sad, bitter, envious, angry, disappointed, or frustrated.
The misfits are likely to develop a detrimental attitude, such as
Elliott Rodger, who was envious of the boys who had friends, and who
became angry when he saw boys
and girls showing affection towards
one another. Rodger would have been even
more miserable if he was living in a city where the majority of people had wonderful
friendships, and were routinely showing affection towards one
another.
As we make life more
wonderful for the majority of people, we make life
more miserable for the misfits.
Therefore, as we improve our city and
culture, it becomes increasingly important to identify and
euthanize the misfits while they are young so that we can reduce the
number of adults who become lonely, angry, envious, sad, violent, and
miserable.
We
need courtship guidance
In order for people to
enjoy flirting and finding a spouse, we must be willing to experiment
with new attitudes towards life. One of the experiments that this
constitution advocates is to prohibit the single men from pursuing
women in public areas, and restricting that behavior to the official
courtship activities.
Although this is a
restriction of their freedom, it is no more oppressive or cruel than
prohibiting people from pooping, spitting, and masturbating in public.
We do not suffer from those type
of prohibitions. Rather, those
restrictions make our social environments more relaxing and pleasant.
By prohibiting courtship in public areas, single people can get
together in public areas without being concerned about sexual comments,
being touched, or any of the other annoying things that single men and
women do to one another.
The
courtship executives have to experiment
The Courtship Minister
hires the executives who organize and supervise
the
courtship
activities, but he cannot tell the executives how to operate their
activity. Since nobody knows the best way for men and women to find a
spouse,
nobody can tell the executives what to do. Therefore, each executive is
on his own to experiment with his courtship activities.
The Courtship Ministry is required to help the executives learn from
one another. The executives cannot operate in secrecy, so if one of
them discovers an effective technique, or learns something about human
behavior, it becomes public knowledge so that the other executives can
learn from
it. The executive who discover something will get credit
for it, which will help him remain in his job.
The courtship executives are in a role that is similar to that of scientists who are conducting
experiments in order to learn something and improve life for everybody,
and who share their discoveries with the world. The courtship
executives are not
analogous to businesses of a free enterprise system that try to destroy
one another, and keep their technology a secret.
The
courtship executives have access to the entire city
The courtship activities
are restricted to evenings and weekends since
almost everybody works or goes to school during the weekday. All of the
courtship executives work on a part-time basis, and they choose which
days they want to work, and how many people they want to deal with.
Courtship activities do not
need permanent facilities. Instead, each executive will
have access to whatever facilities he decides to use. For example, if
an executive decides to arrange for his group to get together for a
discussion, he can arrange for them to meet
at a facility that has some type of meeting room or auditorium. If he
wants to get the group together for a dinner, he will arrange for them
to have access to a large dining area. If he wants to arrange for them
to get together for a recreational activity or at a gazebo in a park,
he will arrange for them to have access to that area.
Since the executives are working for the city, and the city owns all of
the buildings and facilities, the executives can use any of the
facilities that are vacant in the evenings and weekends, and he can
reserve areas at restaurants, lounge rooms, museums, conference rooms,
and other
facilities for his
group.
Courtship
begins in Teentown
The courtship activities
begin with the teenagers
in
Teentown, but not
to help the teenagers find a spouse. Although some of the teenagers are
likely
to find a spouse while in Teentown, the purpose of the courtship
activities is to help them become accustomed to the concept of
courtship activities, and
help them meet a lot of people of the opposite sex. After they get
out of
Teentown, the adult courtship activities will help them find a spouse.
Courtship
executives can discriminate
Each courtship executive
decides what type of people he is offering his
services to. For example,
one executive might want to take the typical, heterosexual adults that
are between 18 and 24 years old; another might want to take people who
have
a strong
interest in art and music; and another might want to take people who
have a strong interest in science.
Since this constitution does not believe that there is a dividing line
between men and women, and that homosexuals will appear in every
generation, the Courtship Minister must provide activities for
homosexuals, also. This constitution does not promote the philosophy
that we
should hate, ignore, or insult the homosexuals.
It is especially detrimental to force homosexuals to be heterosexual.
We must acknowledge the evidence
that everybody is a haphazard jumble of genetic characteristics, and
there is no benefit to ignoring or tormenting the people who have an
unpleasant jumble.
Some or most homosexuals are likely to be due to inheritable genetic
characteristics, rather than to chemicals that interfere with the
development of a fetus, in which case forcing them to behave like
heterosexuals and have children will result in more sexually defective
people in the next generation. Therefore, it is best to let them be
homosexual.
The single people would choose an executive according to the group he
is advertising for. Ideally, a person would remain with an executive
until he gets married so that the executive can get to know him. That
allows the executives to help the people figure out who they are most
compatible with. It also allows the executives to determine whether a
person in his group is so incompatible with the others that he should
switch groups.
Nobody should be criticized for being a misfit in a particular
courtship group because that would be as idiotic as criticizing a
person who tries a shirt, and then discovers that it doesn't fit
properly. We must accept other people for what they are rather than
insult them or try to make them become like us.
Courtship
activities will be uncomfortable
The Courtship Minister
cannot be concerned
with whether the people like the
courtship activities. The courtship activities are not intended
to be entertainment.
Rather, they are a type of educational
program
in which the people are under pressure to interact with the opposite
sex in a variety of supervised situations in order
to learn about themselves and one
another.
The courtship activities could be described as a way of compensating
for the unnatural social
environment of a modern society, and helping
us to regain the intimacy of a prehistoric, nomadic tribe.
The unfortunate aspect of a courtship activity is that it will be
emotionally unpleasant because
it requires the executive to
dampen our natural craving to create a phony image to impress one
another, and to be secretive about the aspects of ourselves that we are
embarrassed of.
We cannot expect single people to be honest with potential spouses
because we were designed to compete
for a spouse, and we do that by trying to impress potential spouses.
It is unlikely that anybody has been honest with potential
spouses. Instead, there are some people who are the most honest, and at
the other extreme are the people who are so deceptive that it
is difficult to believe that news reports, such as this
man who pretended to be a woman, got married, and got away with it for
12 days. There was also this
woman who pretended to be a man in order to get married so that she
could get a dowry.
The only way we can stop people from behaving like selfish, deceptive
animals is for the courtship executive to put people under pressure to
be honest. The courtship executive can use the People
database to provide people with analyses of themselves, and to ensure
that they are honest about themselves.
Unfortunately, the pressure to be honest will make
people feel uncomfortable. Therefore, the courtship minister needs a
personality that allows him to to put people under pressure. He cannot
be a shy or submissive person.
The executive cannot design the sessions to be entertaining, or even
pleasant. Instead, he needs the attitude of a teacher or military drill
sergeant. His goal is to help people understand themselves, and put pressure on
everybody to allow other
people to get to know them.
We
don't know what we want from a spouse
Our ignorance and arrogance
causes each of us to believe that we know
what we want from a spouse, but the dating websites show
that most people have an unrealistic
view of themselves and what they want from
life.
For example, many people make
remarks such as, "I enjoy
romantic walks along the beach" but only a few married couples
can be seen taking romantic walks along the
beach, or anywhere else.
I rarely see couples taking a walk, and of those, very few could be
described as a "romantic" walk. Most of the people that I see walking
are walking their dogs,
and usually by themselves. Their walks are not romantic
or pleasant. Rather, it is more of a chore
because they have to
frequently stop and wait for their dog to sniff, pee, or
poop, and they frequently have to pick up and carry dog poop.
Those people are pandering
to a stupid animal, not enjoying a romantic walk, or enjoying
nature. Some of them seem to enjoy it only because they're bored and
lonely, and because their muscles are getting irritated by sitting in
front of a television for hours.
The
courtship executives have to counteract
idiotic beliefs
Everybody alive today was
raised in a social environment that exposed
us to idiotic, conflicting, and deceptive information about
marriage, courtship, sex, homes, traveling, children, and other
issues.
Businesses, charities, organized religions, and other organizations are
contaminating our minds with movies, fiction
books, travel pornography, wedding pornography, sexual pornography,
religious pornography, pet pornography, and baby pornography.
Therefore, the
courtship executives must experiment with activities that counteract
the nonsense that we picked up, and help us discover
what we truly like and benefit from.
In the future, when children grow up in a more sensible environment,
the courtship executives will have an easier time because they won't
have to deal with people who have idiotic expectations
of marriage, sex, and other issues.
Furthermore, most of the people in the advanced nations are so
unaccustomed to nudity and so ignorant about sex and human bodies that
the courtship executives will have to find ways to counteract the
inhibitions about nudity and sex issues, and the obsessions that many
men have with sex and women's bodies.
I suspect that the courtship executives will discover that they are
most successful when they arrange for people to occasionally go to
swimming areas and force them to be naked in front of one another. That
should help the men get over their obsessions with women's bodies.
By becoming accustomed to naked women, the men should develop the
attitude of prehistoric men who enjoy seeing women in pretty clothing,
and have no desire to look under their dresses. That would allow the
men to be much more relaxed around women, and make life for women more
comfortable.
Improving
courtship is a very slow
process
The Courtship Minister
judges the executives according to how
successful they are at helping men and women form stable
marriages, not according to
whether people like him. This requires the Courtship Minister to keep
track of the
"graduates" of a courtship activity, determine how many of them get
married, and then occasionally check those married couples throughout many years to
determine which of them seems to have a stable and
pleasant marriage.
That will be a very slow process since the requires observing people
for years, but it is the only
way the Courtship Minister will know which of the executives were the
most
successful. By determining which of them is the most successful, the
other executives will be able to learn from them.
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