/lit/ - Literature

What good is your sexual "freedom" when everybody can, yet nobody wants, to fuck you? Try as you might, you will grow old, impotent or in menopause too.

Women live longer than men, and yet their value becomes next to zero in their 50s, for crying out loud, and you wonder how could it possibly be that a woman would support "obsolete" ideas over marriage and sexual mores?

Do you want to lower the age of consent as to make yourself be worth even less in the marketplace? Do you want illiterate 16 year old kids or younger to steal what little romantic opportunities you were given so bad?

When there are no social, let alone legal, boundaries left, men and women scorned and betrayed will still seek a form of compensation, but the hard way. Barbarism on top of barbarism. Do you not see enough crimes of passion, vengeance, uxoricides in the news? These murders happen not because of a conspiracy of the powerful Big Other. Being abandoned hurts. It's a particular kind of pain, that is contagious, which reminds me of STDs.

Sexual preference is exclusionary, anti-democratic - "barbaric" if there ever was such a thing worth calling that - the clearest sign we're animals pretending to be domesticated.

Yes, there's a social construct going on, perhaps it's time to entertain the notion that maybe, just maybe, the social construct was constructed for a reason.

>>7923323
>Confucius
>no influence on anything

Confucius shaped Chinese civilization. Confucianism had a hand in forming almost every norm and tradition in Chinese society and history. Almost every facet of Chinese society owes something to Confucius, not to mention having a massive part in the development of Japanese and Korean civilization. Idk much about it, but I think the same can be said of Buddha and India.

> In 2014, SOAS has been rated ninth in Europe and 26th in the world for Arts and Humanities

Studying History and Politics there starting this September.

Taking the bait.

OP you do realize that back then Greece had an entirely different culture than what we do now. They viewed people like Heracles as heroes because they had different values than us. While our heroes are brave, ethical and noble, Greece's heroes were more cunning and tough.

>implying quality of material relates to the disposition off the hero