I understand how the survey has serious flaws but I think there is a kernel of truth in there. People are getting more lonely and having more trouble forming meaningful relationships to other people, sexual or otherwise.
The chud explanation would be to blame woke feminism and me too (Hurr Durr! You're not allowed to do anything today without a written consent form!) whereas the liberal explanation will be to close their eyes and pretend everything is fine with all the opportunities the market provides for socialising.
I think the cause for loneliness today is directly related to capitalism and the commodification of human emotions. There are very few communal spaces left where you can socialise on an equal footing with peers and even if there was, work is hogging too much time and energy and the market is constantly grabbing your attention with some shiny gadget that there's very little room left for being genuinely social.
Sex is better under socialism. An oft-cited fact is that east German women had more orgasms than their west German counterparts, indicating that socialism is more conductive to forming healthy sexual relationships than capitalism. In the GDR you didn't have a huge advertising industry to tell people that they were ugly and that they needed some commodity to be attractive to sexual partners, they didn't have conservative brainworms trying to make people feel guilty for having sex and they didn't have unemployment and poverty to make people too desperate to have sex or class divisions to make people feel too fancy to have sex with someone of a lesser standing than themselves. What did east Germans have instead? They had gender equality with financial independence for women and that economic equality fostered more equal and thereby more rewarding relationships between men and women. East Germany also had high levels of material security, leaving people free to pursue social relations as they didn't have to worry about having their basic needs met. And finally east Germany had a sense of community, people had something in common and felt involved in eachother's well-being instead of being atomised consumers.
In short: Capitalism is cockblocking you whereas socialism will get you laid.
GDR also sacrificed it to keep an overly zealous MfS running. The people said ACAB and the government made them choose between defund the police and socialism. People chose defund the police.
I understand how the survey has serious flaws but I think there is a kernel of truth in there. People are getting more lonely and having more trouble forming meaningful relationships to other people, sexual or otherwise.
The chud explanation would be to blame woke feminism and me too (Hurr Durr! You're not allowed to do anything today without a written consent form!) whereas the liberal explanation will be to close their eyes and pretend everything is fine with all the opportunities the market provides for socialising.
I think the cause for loneliness today is directly related to capitalism and the commodification of human emotions. There are very few communal spaces left where you can socialise on an equal footing with peers and even if there was, work is hogging too much time and energy and the market is constantly grabbing your attention with some shiny gadget that there's very little room left for being genuinely social.
Sex is better under socialism. An oft-cited fact is that east German women had more orgasms than their west German counterparts, indicating that socialism is more conductive to forming healthy sexual relationships than capitalism. In the GDR you didn't have a huge advertising industry to tell people that they were ugly and that they needed some commodity to be attractive to sexual partners, they didn't have conservative brainworms trying to make people feel guilty for having sex and they didn't have unemployment and poverty to make people too desperate to have sex or class divisions to make people feel too fancy to have sex with someone of a lesser standing than themselves. What did east Germans have instead? They had gender equality with financial independence for women and that economic equality fostered more equal and thereby more rewarding relationships between men and women. East Germany also had high levels of material security, leaving people free to pursue social relations as they didn't have to worry about having their basic needs met. And finally east Germany had a sense of community, people had something in common and felt involved in eachother's well-being instead of being atomised consumers.
In short: Capitalism is cockblocking you whereas socialism will get you laid.
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GDR also sacrificed it to keep an overly zealous MfS running. The people said ACAB and the government made them choose between defund the police and socialism. People chose defund the police.
and bananas dont forget them.