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Timing (Free verse) by Dovina

In another age, I would have married young, To a pre-selected man from my village, had too many children, broken my back with my hands, died early, rested beneath the second of three crosses behind his house, while our hated king lived on a far away hill. I would have believed in servitude and done what the priest said, until my husband came home drunk, layed me and fell asleep. Then I would have hung a red lantern for seafare to Paris.

Ranger 16-Oct-06/2:20 AM
What have I to lose? By 2050 I probably won't care too much about this, if I'm still alive, because by that point I'll have to keep working until I die just to live that long. The fact is (as I see it) that giving women more liberty and keeping the world's population down share very little common ground. Nobody should be wholly subject to another person. But if everyone is completely independent, where does that leave marriage? It will no longer be a binding force which keeps people together through the rough times out of necessity. As soon as a marriage has its first problem, there's nothing preventing one party upping sticks and leaving. You'll say that there's nothing to show such a result will necessarily happen, and there isn't. But just look at the general first world trends over recent decades. Divorce rates and the number of single-parent families are increasing on a scale unimaginable a century ago. What was once a sacred bond is becoming little more than a token novelty which can be discarded at any time.
As for the rising population, well we're going to reach the limit one day unless natural forces intervene, aren't we? And when we do, war, famine or plague will keep the numbers in check. It's ironic that you call the mentality one from the Middle Ages (which is true enough) but look for a reduction in numbers, because the only thing which can drastically diminish the number of human beings on the planet (aside from a good ol' epidemic) is a social return to the Middle Ages. While we continue to attempt to create an entire first world planet, we will create more problems of space and resources. After all, the whole point of first world society is to be populous and prosperous. But are there enough world resources for Earth to be totally first world?


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