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Love & Marriage

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The Importance of Love

Soah: Why is love so out of fashion with the intelligentsia and others who are striving to be with it? Love is one of those bonds which enable people to function and societies to flourish without being directed from above. Soah asserts that our elite class downplays the importance of love because it's something that can't be controlled from above. If Orwell was right, I'm wondering out loud here if a disruption in the natural connection between men and women has been transformed into a crusading mentality in the population at large. Can the many manifestations of social justice activism we see today be explained by the need to sublimate our natural desires which are not being fulfilled in the normal way

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