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What People Get Wrong about Relationships and Starting A Family
In today’s modern society, particularly the generations born in the aftermath of World War II and the generations born after 1995 have been born into a world of wealth and peace, and nearly 80 years have passed since the last great war engulfed the world.
At that time, society transformed in unmistakable ways thanks to the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, the Silicon Age, which created the computer age, and the technological age, which created the computers and other machines we rely on today.
Consider the omnipresence of new technologies in our daily routines. Today’s computing power in smartphones surpasses the Apollo 12 mission to the moon in 1969.
These technological changes have also changed society in terms of what people value.
Western society is now a consumer society, and to a society that is not willing to forego pleasure and immediate gratification over long-term projects, the satisfaction of today is sacrificing the greater satisfaction of the future.
To embark upon a relationship requires the sacrifice of immediate pleasure.
Instead of greater value in long-term satisfaction, people are incredibly messy and flawed, which can make the cost-benefit analysis in the short term highly negative…
