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Relationships used to be about survival. Now that we don't need each other to survive, attractiveness became the main thing that matters. Social media made this worse over the last 10-20 years.
Relationships used to be about survival. Now that we don't need each other to survive, attractiveness became the main thing that matters. Social media made this worse over the last 10-20 years.
Traditional relationships throughout history have been based on necessity. Men and women have had to get along because life has been very, very hard. And when life is very, very hard, they have to lean more on the complementary skill sets that they've evolved biologically and socially over hundreds of thousands of years. Right. And when we're liberated from necessity, people get together not because they need to, but because they want to, which is why in order to have a relationship in today's day and age, you have to be very attractive. Whether you're a man or a woman, because people don't need you as much as they did even a generation ago. They have to want you if they're going to enter into a relationship with you, whether it's just for a night or for the rest of your life. And so we've seen an ascendancy in the importance of attractiveness in the last, let's say, 10, 20 years that has just been exponentially exacerbated by social media and like the Instagram optics.
