Double Flee A

Marriage is very similar to communism. Let me explain.

Communism is based on a text. If you follow the rules, it works like a charm. But there's a problem, which is that the government doesn't know how much stuff I need. I might really like soap, and using it, or burning it as art, or anything, which means that the machine of the preplanned political economy breaks down, and it is all a failure, see the soviet union for details. Lesson: nobody can predict the free market of ideas by which the human experiance is essentially informed, nor what by-products will emerge.

Marriage is the same way. Marriage doesn't know how much pussy I need, and therefore, it won't work. The bible says it works, but it doesn't. Ever see the books that help people in marriages work it out? They're everywhere, and they're everywhere because marriages don't fucking work. Marriage isn't natural. It's really nice to fantasize, to imagine that a person can see the rest of his or her life and plot a course for romance to last till keeling over in the nursing home, but be serious.

The deal is this: people have to have sex to make new people. Therefore, they have to get along intersexually long enough to bump uglies. After that, all bets are off. They can be the kind of couple that later trash-talks about how terrible the other one is, or they can like each other, or some other thing can happen, but evolutionarily speaking, it doesn't make a bit of difference.

Human nature is governed by whims. These whims must be allowed to manifest for a person to act in a manner befitting his nature. Some mornings he wants coffee and a honey-colored beach babe, and some mornings he wants tea and a scandinavian. You just never know, and neither does he, the poor bastard. That's about as simple as it can be, and the fact that it's unacceptable as hell doesn't make me believe it any less.

Marriage, like communism, is doomed. Q.E.D.

posted by dale @ 2:00 AM