342: Modern dating and romance is a disaster

The boys drink and review 395 Rye from Checkerspot Brewing, then discuss the changing expectations in dating, courtship, and marriage. The traditional formula is first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage. The new formula is something like first comes sex, then comes dating, then you move in together, then you get a dog, then maybe you finally get married. What happened to "take me down to the little white church," "no huggie no kissie until you make me your wife," or "if you liked it then you should have put a ring on it." The problem is that the elite have adopted "luxury ideas" -- idiotic, fashionable beliefs that don't harm them, with their flock and nannies in their gated neighborhoods, but destroy the lives of the middle and lower classes. Traditional dating and marriage rules spread the wealth, so to speak, in a way that the modern rules don't. It results in a lot of men and women who have no life partner, and no prospect of getting one.