I think the relevant point is that many of those are abstract improvements rather than intimate ones. "Making the country richer" is not as emotionally accessible as "Now that women have their own money my productivity does not attract them." So these things tug in different directions.
Which latter is mentally broken, but hugely common, because that's the way the societal breakdown has been set up for a long time - you read at Figleaf's, right? I thought I'd seen you comment there, this is "two laws of attraction" again - and it's the individual level, not the abstract level, that tends to most strongly influence gut responses.
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Date: 2010-04-12 12:06 am (UTC)Which latter is mentally broken, but hugely common, because that's the way the societal breakdown has been set up for a long time - you read at Figleaf's, right? I thought I'd seen you comment there, this is "two laws of attraction" again - and it's the individual level, not the abstract level, that tends to most strongly influence gut responses.