Responsibility Despite our determination to separate pleasure from duty, it remains an inescapable fact of our anatomy: sex leads to babies and the responsibilities of child rearing. Just as sin has led us to make an end run around marriage, so, too, we have sought to avoid the responsibility intended to go hand in handContinue reading “Man Turned in on Himself, Excerpt 13”
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Man Turned in on Himself, Excerpt 12
We have said that the primary curbs that support and enforce marriage have historically been sexual consequences and social mores. It is not hard to imagine that as individuals became more inclined to reject sexual purity for themselves, they were less interested in condemning impurity in others. Shame, “the emotion that reveals a culture’s moralContinue reading “Man Turned in on Himself, Excerpt 12”
Man Turned in on Himself, excerpt 11
If sin has been with us since the Fall, it would stand to reason that disordered patterns of marriage and sexuality would be somewhat predictable. Why, then, should Americans in the 21st century be overly concerned about the current decline in marriage? “The scale of marital breakdowns in the West since 1960 has no historicalContinue reading “Man Turned in on Himself, excerpt 11”
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Man Turned in on Himself, excerpt 9
Our Disordered Relationship to Technology …This idea of technology being better than nothing—and then somehow, better than anything—which has developed incrementally from television to the internet to gaming to social media is now leading to the widespread integration of robots into daily life. “The idea of sociable robots suggests that we might navigate intimacy byContinue reading “Man Turned in on Himself, excerpt 9”
Heather Choate Davis 