WW2....things DID calm down after a big fight.... Than... we forgot.... We forget history.... And how it truly was.... We take rights and comfort for granted.... We forgot that we all were under the natural selection system.
See my point here ?... I hope your boys will listen.

@RemiDallaire Well, also after WW2 there was a huge dearth of men-- so from the male perspective it was a bit of a seller's market.

@RemiDallaire Well right, but that's not what I meant. At the moment there isn't a whole lot of dead and so women have the "seller's market" angle at the moment. And likely will for the next foreseeable bit barring some large planetary-scale calamity or maybe some new frontier (space?) that resets the dynamic.n. All it would take is one meteor-- as you pointed out-- to change the equation. Take out our advanced technology-- infrastructure, power, information flow-- any number of things could "blow us back to the stone age", so to speak. It wouldn't necessarily knock out the knowledge that we have (had) gained, but it could very well throw us into a mini-dark age while we worked to recover on a large scale.

@jwhitten The Meteor reference was just to accentuate the fact that all theses social causes are kinda meaningless LOL that's all.

Now you are a smart fellah.... Do you truly have so much faith in human nature that you think someone somewhere won't find a good excuse somewhere to start chaos ?

human nature.... history..... repeat of the same shit over and over again for self interest and gain ?? If you don't see this coming from miles aways.... you are an optimist.... And I salute you my friend

@RemiDallaire >> The Meteor reference was just to accentuate the fact that all theses social causes are kinda meaningless LOL that's all.

I recognize that the 'meteor' is simply a metaphor. But when you look around the world you see that there is a huge imbalance of men-to-women and that detail, historically, has not boded well for society.

"The consequences of having too many men, now coming of age, are far-reaching: beyond an epidemic of loneliness, the imbalance distorts labour markets, drives up savings rates in China and drives down consumption, artificially inflates certain property values and parallels increases in violent crime, trafficking or prostitution in a growing number of locations."

When you have huge numbers of young horny marriage-minded men sitting around idle and unemployed, it's a recipe for disaster and the proverbial 'interesting times'. In times past wars and other disasters would weed out the men and present a strong crop to the young women to choose from. The 'leftovers' were relatively small and society has been able to absorb their numbers and deal with them.

"Barely recognised, the ramifications of too many men are only starting to come into sight.
“In the future, there will be millions of men who can’t marry, and that could pose a very big risk to society,” warns Li Shuzhuo, a leading demographer"

However, consider China, for example, and India, for another. In those two countries alone-- the two most populous nations on the planet-- there is a very large disparity in the sex ratio leaving around 70 million men unpaired with partners and sitting around with nothing better to do. They have no jobs, no partners, no prospects-- the situation for them is pretty bleak. And yet they have their strength in numbers and miserable disposition to offer as a chaotic force upon the world.

Add to that the insidious and pervasive influence of hateful Feminism belittling, denigrating and blaming men for all of the ills of the world, and you've got yourself quite a tinderbox combination. You can't blame it all on Feminism of course, that's merely a symptom itself of the larger looming underlying problems which are about to plague our modern society (my words, my view).

We are standing at the brink of a brand new era in human civilization which is unprecedented by any situation previous in the whole of human history. Add to that the growing numbers of people displaced from their native regions, displaced by ever-more advanced and automated technology, displaced through lack of housing, economic conditions-- and on and on-- and the world becomes a stick of dynamite just looking for a spark.

“No one knows how sad I feel”

We are simply running out of things to keep people engaged and gainfully occupied and we are doing exactly nothing to improve the situation in the near term. We have no plan of action, not even a conceptual plan for dealing with all of the displaced members of society and giving them some new noble purpose to subscribe to.

"The men themselves are isolated, left out of major family decisions and subject to ridicule, with little in the way of support or mental health services."

It is quite a conundrum and to top it all off, our media institutions have lost ALL sense of reason and are busy running around fanning the flames and pouring gasoline on the fires. We have officially entered the realm of 'Clown World' full and proper.

But, all of that said, I (fore)see nothing on the horizon which is likely to alter that basic sex ratio and indeed, much that is far more likely to exacerbate it even further. And that one risk alone could engender a calamity whose resultant turmoil could plunge society into a new dark age for some indeterminate period of time. There is no guarantee of energy, communications, motivation or direction.

Men are only valued in society when they are able to provide resources, particularly to women. The rest of the time they are preyed upon, exploited, used as pawns and cannon-fodder in other people's political games. Or ignored entirely. -- Me

We are lucky we live in a time that things are relatively peaceful and peaceable. But I think we have grown far too complacent about these aspects to the point of taking them completely for granted and assuming that we will always continue to have a functioning society based on the rule of law and order-- items which have been bestowed upon us through the hard work and effort of "The Patriarchy". Consider the IRONY implicit in that.

Here is an article on the topic (quotes above not otherwise noted are from the article):

"Too many men: China and India battle with the consequences of gender imbalance"

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@jwhitten yeaaaaaaaaahhhhhh but all this tirade and pilling of problems....just make me wanna to look at the current state humanity with a cold blooded heart. You kinda make my point here.... Or better yet... Can you blame me for being cinical ?? (Take for granted that I was aware of most points that you are making)

How come you were so optimist earlier ? craking up here

@RemiDallaire >> How come you were so optimist earlier ?

You know the difference between an Optimist and a Pessimist?

The Optimist believes that this is the best of all possible worlds !!!

The Pessimist believes that the Optimist may well be right.

@jwhitten I must be an iconoclast than... Cuz I wanna drink that half full half empty glass LOL.. (Please tell me it's Rhum)