Has marriage really lost its financial function?
There’s a fashionable narrative going around, usually duplicated in glossy magazines and scholastic disputes:
“Marriage no more serves a financial purpose. That’s why it can lastly become something pure and lovely– an act of love, a sincere dedication to one unique individual.”
As thinker Slavoj Žižek when placed it:
“Marriage is about sharing your whole world with someone. Passion is wonderful, however what truly matters is the morning after– building everyday rituals, sharing chores, choosing that chefs morning meal or cleanses the restroom. That’s where love begins: in the voluntary bond between 2 people.”
Žižek rejects polyamory or open relationships, which to him look also practical:
“You offer me terrific discussions, you provide me enthusiastic sex, you provide me enjoyable. That has nothing to do with love. Love isn’t about meeting requirements; it has to do with something esoteric– absolute trust, a preparedness to alter radically for the sake of us.”
Gorgeous words. However perhaps a little as well optimistic. It’s easier to hold such sights when you are among the world’s best-known thinkers, monetarily safe, and constantly bordered by admirers. From that …