Thursday, April 3, 2025
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Maria Shriver Details "Prison" of Arnold Schwarzenegger Marriage | E! News
The problem with traditional marriage among the upper class, the middle class, and the working-lower class is not this or that horrible spouse. The INSTITUTION of bourgeois marriage for centuries now has been based mostly on PRIVATE PROPERTY rights even over children. You have some divine right to emotionally devour your spouse ? Any LITERATE American citizen can locate a pile of works of fiction and critical non-fiction books on Marriage & Family which present a depressing picture of a massive institutional failure.
Without advocating libertine debauchery and criminal neglect of children, human beings should be able to start families with a lot more COMMUNAL support. The FAMILY should not be an isolated bubble and husbands and wives should not make impossible emotional and sexual demands on their spouses.
The FATE of children should not depend on the social status of the biological parents who brought them into this very imperfect world.
Even in a shocking way the Russian aristocrat Tolstoy revealed horrible truths about the married state among ALL classes of people. He wrote from personal experience .
One of my favorite short stories about marital " bliss " was " Free " by American author Theodore Dreiser.
Collectively human beings must figure out a better way to live and breed very differently from TV and Hollywood movie IMAGES of vacuous couples each pursuing the AMERICAN DREAM in his or her own way.
The general misery of marriage today still serves Corporate America, the Consumer Culture . The message you get : the solution to ANY problem is just a smart purchase away . Or if you are depressed, SEE YOUR DOCTOR and tell him all about the latest anti-depressant advertised recklessly on TV News. How much the MAKE A BUCK medical doctors just love SMART patients ( who watch TV ! ) .
" Can this marriage be saved ? " Of course not !
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