Odd recent news...

 As a social scientist, an expert in strategic global human affairs with decades of experience accurately predicting things like the Iraq War, its outcome, etc. and working to stop a widening GWOT that may have repeated the Iraq debacle in Syria, I feel compelled to talk about today's news.

Easy piece, China warning our birds out of their space. Who cares? We would do and have done, the same. 

Behind the headlines, there is massive over reaction to our "quadrupling" of our forces in Taiwan. We have 30 guys there (on paper) x4 that's 120 guys. Barely an infantry company. Nobody actual thinks that matters.

Our real numbers in Taipei? Meh.

What about Ukraine? Were spending (laundering) more than 46 billion per year, more than we did in Afghanistan annually. I wonder about how much comes back to our political class ILLEGALLY sending these funds I to a war zone?

Yes. Illegal. Believe it or not, it's illegal, under the constitution, reinforced by recent statues, to supply monies, munitions, troops or aid to support any military action against a power the US is at peace with (we are the first country established with a de facto at peace status as the norm).

So...technically, we are at peace with Russia, and thus, giving 46.6 billion dollars in cash and tens of thousands of tons of arms, not to mention more than 1500 military advisors, to Ukraine is illegal. It is the very definition of a high crime that threatens global stability. 

Ppl might care more if they could afford eggs right now.

Politicians have managed to divide us so much  that polarity/political party means more than law (anathema to our founding principles).

Without a central guiding ethic, the 2 parties are 2 lawyers fighting in a divorce and nothing more. One lawyer says the sky is green the other red but, while the judge sees blue, she likes the judge arguing red and so it is ruled red.

Our system is that broken.

A divorce, early 1860s.

It has also become a mad wasteland for humanity. I recently read several stories from various perspectives, including psychology today, news outlets and rags like salon, reddit, buzzfeed and slate, talking about the odd single status of young men being double that of young women.

I have read all the conjecture and made my own survey.

The best analysis, looking at the data samples in the US primarily is that there is something deeply different about today's youth. Not anything WRONG with women or men, but different.

Some speculate porn and male sex toys, blurred sexual identities - a possible continued leftist attack on the concept of a nuclear family, some conservative types suggest, is to blame.

Any casual look at social engineering by the left in the various Russian and Chinese efforts reveals an obvious offense against the traditional family, clan, community and other cultural social norms. 

Just look at Russian changes to divorce laws over any 10 year period on either side of a revolution. 

This is just what I'm seeing. What I have read. 

Some say women of a young age in the US have new sky high expectations to be a kept woman of a yacht sailing ceo or are pursuing careers and education thanks to covid shutting down social interactions. Men have p0rn and Playstation, hi-tech sex toys and easy hookups, so y not be "single".

Could it be we, men and women define it differently?

HMM...

For me, I scanned several dating sites in the age groups researched. I looked at the women and was shocked at what I saw.

There are so many sexualities, how would a straight go know what girl to approach? It's not worth the effort to be wrong in today's culture where everyone is just waiting to be offended. 

Trying to tell young men that fat slobs are healthy and just as attractive can't be helping. I've talked to young men, they are disgusted by a lot of that. On the other extreme, female gym rats who have bigger arms than them or squat more or who complain on the tik tok about being looked at in the gym (while working out in a bikini) have discouraged them from even being in the same spaces. So they are on a Playstation, doing dnd or masturbating consequence free.

I have examined various social sciences my entire adult life. I have always had a knack for getting a girl I wanted, I have seldom been without an amazingly beautiful female partner. I find only a few young ladies out there today I might have pursued as a younger man. 

Why?

Character.

Today they assured to have multiple kids by as many dads to max child support,  they are morally bankrupt and shameless, aspiring to masturbate on the internet for cash and male validation. Girls sell farts in jars and used bathwater, normizing this level of depravity. 

Men and women both have broken societal norms. It's not just mnw now it's sapiosexuals, pansexuals, trannies, bis, queerz, the wierd trannies who want anonymity and their records sealed (flying in the face of the 'pride' movement no?). Some have said there are 200+ genders. How is a 20 something man suppossed to safely navigate that? Why even bother to try?

I've recently returned to dating pist covid after my last LTR succumbed to chronic illness. I've had a dozen dates, mostly 1sts, a 2nd or 2 and even a Vday and follow up but, post covid I found MOST SIGNIFICANTLY, its not just young singles struggling. I can show that in data collected, but anecdotally, I will attest its crazy out there post covid.

Young people, don't take it personally, you do have it harder than us old people, but you have time to fix it. We do not. It's up to you young folks to set it right for yourselves and those, if any, that follow. I'm almost all used up. I really don't think I can love again after Sarah.

I miss her, and always will. She used up my best ideas, energy, years, gave rise to new dreams, filled them and broke them.