> marriage is about duty, social status and honor. not romantic love (lust) which always fades. you can historically trace that mental illness back to centuries ago. it's foundation is gnosticism, and spread out with the cathars and their troubadours, infecting western culture and literature ever since. classics like shakespeare exalting the eros, the passion (which is antithetical to love, marriage) are nothing more than its most pure manifestation. it all culminated in wagner, where the ruse was shown as it really is, a cult of death.... it's hard to live in a post-romanticism world, no more mystery, just death in plain clothes, irreparably confusing and dooming the minds of millions. 20th century social engineers surely didn't help but the core of this disease is millennial.
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