Even Chad adopts it, in a certain way.
You see, marriage used to be about tribes, clans or families doing alliances, they were arranged by parents or village elders and they choose the best couple to symbolize such an alliance in which this couple would then move on to build a household and raise a family. Love would grow out of shared labours and mutual dependence. You can't expect such a thing to exist anymore, so the original point of getting married was lost forever.
Then marriage changed as "romantic love" made an entrance on societal relationships between men and women. For a time it worked, because the courtship rituals were strict enough to guarantee pretty much every man a wife, and the culture was still traditional in a way that made women able to exhibit enough inhibition and self-control so that they did not become whores. But in the 1960s a conjunction of economic changes, such as the rise of a post-industrial service based economy that made beta male labour obsolete, and social changes such as the sexual revolution, colluded as to make even such a arrangement a thing of the past.
Modern marriage, aka Marriage 3.0 (after arranged marriages and romantic marriages) is more or less a gamble, where two people who like to have sex each other see who gets their heart broken and wealth stolen first. It's just not worth the hassle. Not even alpha males marry anymore, they just pump and dump, and for beta males who still want to marry, they have to humiliate themselves accepting former concubines of alpha males if they are greater betas, if they are lesser betas they won't even have such option.
The work of the sexual revolution at eroding every single norm that regulated female sexuality has made the natural biological imperative the main determining factor in human mating again, and guess what, we just returned to harem societies, like the ones of our earliest human ancestors.
You see, marriage used to be about tribes, clans or families doing alliances, they were arranged by parents or village elders and they choose the best couple to symbolize such an alliance in which this couple would then move on to build a household and raise a family. Love would grow out of shared labours and mutual dependence. You can't expect such a thing to exist anymore, so the original point of getting married was lost forever.
Then marriage changed as "romantic love" made an entrance on societal relationships between men and women. For a time it worked, because the courtship rituals were strict enough to guarantee pretty much every man a wife, and the culture was still traditional in a way that made women able to exhibit enough inhibition and self-control so that they did not become whores. But in the 1960s a conjunction of economic changes, such as the rise of a post-industrial service based economy that made beta male labour obsolete, and social changes such as the sexual revolution, colluded as to make even such a arrangement a thing of the past.
Modern marriage, aka Marriage 3.0 (after arranged marriages and romantic marriages) is more or less a gamble, where two people who like to have sex each other see who gets their heart broken and wealth stolen first. It's just not worth the hassle. Not even alpha males marry anymore, they just pump and dump, and for beta males who still want to marry, they have to humiliate themselves accepting former concubines of alpha males if they are greater betas, if they are lesser betas they won't even have such option.
The work of the sexual revolution at eroding every single norm that regulated female sexuality has made the natural biological imperative the main determining factor in human mating again, and guess what, we just returned to harem societies, like the ones of our earliest human ancestors.
