Marriage and Why It Should Be Abandoned

By Dominique Marsh


The Lie:

Persons marry mainly because they're in like. Or marriage is about really like.

The Truth:

Really like is an ambiguous word at best in addition to a loaded word at worst. In terms of marriage, it's really most effective kept out of your equation. In the event you enjoy someone, why on earth would you need to marry them? One particular can reside together with the particular person they enjoy if they desire to fairly happily without marriage, one can have young children with them, and do every thing with them devoid of marriage. So marriage is not about enjoy. It really is politics. The government is set up in order that men and women in nuclear marriages (other models of marriage are illegal) get concessions and advantages that single individuals, or unmarried men and women don't.

The Lie:

Men and women who're married are happier, reside longer, and take pleasure in a higher superior of lifestyle than individuals who are single.

The Truth:

People that are single is the crucial aspect of that lie. Certainly they are happier. Becoming single sucks. Humans' are social animals, and we require interaction and stimulation. Those who are married get somewhat of that, those who are single, get even much less. The tribal models enjoyed by our ancestors have already been destroyed, initially by wars, then by economics and politics. So there are only definitely two alternatives, being alone, or becoming "married." Of course these together with the personalities suited to getting married in accordance with the present model, are going to be happier. It implies nothing, when the only other selection is being alone. I'm positive an average American Indian with his 4 wives, and his life roaming free of charge on the planes was a million instances happier than your average married couple, his wives' would've been happier also. A lot more assist, much less operate, much more resources, essentially far more of every thing. So if it's about happiness, why do not we go back to a tribal model? Since you guessed it, it really is not about happiness. It's about economics and politics. In other words, exponentially rising wealth to get a handful of, by controlling and managing men and women. And marriage as it is currently conceived and promoted by legislation, media, and marketing, is a pillar institution for controlling and managing people. It leaves us extremely vulnerable.

The Anomalies:

You will find many anomalies (one thing peculiar) concerning marriage that make it hard to realize why folks persist with all the existing model. I'll attempt to highlight them.

The existing model was initially enforced by the Christian church, as indeed the foundations of your existing society were built upon the religious political mandates of your Christian church. But even though the present society has accomplished away with Christianity, the media and also the governments nonetheless promote the Christian model of marriage (albeit with out the priest doing the ceremony) and hold it up as the perfect, and also the people nonetheless want it, and need to go as well as it. There is nevertheless this belief inside the sanctity from the Christian model and perfect, in spite from the truth we've carried out away with God and his book. This does not make sense. Individuals who submit for the existing model and believe in it, don't appear to be conscious of its absurdity. It fundamentally goes like this - you may have two persons saying to one another, I love you and choose to spend the rest of my life with you, but should you ever indulge in physical pleasure with any other person, or if you ever appreciate any other individual but me, I will not really like you anymore and we're by way of. Doesn't that sound absurdly childish?

I hear followers on the existing model say - No, I did not ask that of my spouse, I provided that to my spouse. I gave up my right to like and delight in other people, and that was an expression in the highest appreciate for 1 individual, my beloved, whom I married (equally childish, albeit within a cute sort of way).

Well that is pretty noble of you, and I am confident everyone would be significantly indebted and humbled by such a profound and dramatic gesture of appreciate. And this is how proponents from the present model assume. Their minds are filled with thoughts about how noble and upright and pure and devoted and good their appreciate is. But we all know the reality doesn't hold up, and it is plain to see that for most all those high ideals about adore and lifelong exclusive devotion to one particular particular person are there by way of social conditioning, advertising, and also the media.

The moment once again we assert that genuine like for one more particular person has absolutely nothing to complete with marriage, no matter whether this current model, or any other. You are able to seriously genuinely adore one other particular person with no devoting your self exclusively to them for the rest of one's life, or requiring them to devote themselves to you for the rest of their life.

So why do men and women insist on this model if it's not about appreciate.

We assert they are only following and acting out social norms and living as much as social ideals.

And indeed this is one of core causes for abandoning the current model of marriage. By abandoning this model, and embracing a lot more progressive and open models, we are going to radicalize our whole society and progress and revolutionize our culture. And indeed this is why the present model is enforced by law (generating all other models illegal) and promoted by media and promoting, simply because in terms of structuring peoples relationships so the greatest level of manage and management on the greatest quantity, for the exponential generation of wealth to get a few may perhaps be solidly maintained, the present model is, as we have asserted, essentially the most effective.

Third, the existing model seriously limits a person's development and progression as a human, and seems to cultivate quite negative and harmful states of thoughts including jealousy, possessiveness, fear of alter, insecurity, an unbalanced state of dependency on a single particular person exclusively, and yes that soul killer, guilt. Numerous American Indian tribes, ahead of they have been forced to reside as white guys, and forced to marry in accordance with this current model, established models that directly countered these very unfavorable human states of thoughts. They thought of these states of thoughts risky, and indicators of weakness, and sickness, and states of mind that do no one any good, and stop us from reaching our prospective both individually and collectively. But the American Indians were spiritual men and women, and within their models of marriage and coupling there was space for each individual's individual vision and spiritual quest in attaining their highest personal prospective and spiritual power. To make a model that potentially hinders one's private spiritual journey and limits one's development and progress, is obviously going to limit the whole group collectively. Which once again we assert, is the purpose why the existing model is written in stone, and all other models have been outlawed. The current model in fact prevents a collective group establishing.

The current model stunts and retards a person's potential (speaking frequently) and has all their time and energy taken up usually between three priorities - domestic chores, earning earnings, and raising children. Simply because there are only two people today, these necessary and unending tasks, require all their time and energy. Time and time again I hear - I used to play guitar, I utilised to paint, I wanted to create my personal jewellery, I wanted to create furniture, I used to invest a great deal of time writing, and so on etc - BUT THEN I GOT MARRIED. Within the existing model we've millions of individuals divided up into ones and twos, all living 10 feet away from one another, all running ragged in between domestic chores, earning revenue, and maybe raising children. No one assists one another, no one has time to become concerned about any one else outdoors of their two or one particular person unit, it is merely impossible; everybody is as well busy playing the game. Absolutely everyone is separated up, into exclusive units of two folks, with their own private agendas and own exclusive concerns. It does not take a great intelligence to find out that organising folks in this way is -

a) Not accidental, intelligent, or natural, and it has been determined that individuals must live like this by somebody aside from themselves.

b) Very inefficient and very wasteful of human power and time.

c) Extremely detrimental to the progress and advancement of humans as a collective group.

d) Highly successful for controlling persons and making certain they're kept at their most vulnerable.

e) Extremely efficient for making certain the continued sale of your greatest number of solutions.

Touching again on some items already mentioned:

Guilt:

1 way we can see the true nature of this existing model is by taking a look at divorce. Divorce is really a necessary reality in marriage, and all cultures that have models of marriage, possess a corresponding model of divorce (And by "Divorce" I don't imply the paper processing in the Government Registrar where a couple becomes legally divorced. I mean the private and social encounter of changing or ending the relationship and separating).

Where much more open and progressive models of marriage are concerned, divorce is simple, and will not need months and even years of soul wrenching guilt. It isn't needed for the two people today involved to hate one another, and spend months or even years locked into very dangerous and childish squabbles.




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