17 Şubat 2011 Perşembe

1- Love and Marriage

Love and marriage, love and marriage
It's an institute you can't disparage
Ask the local gentry
And they will say it's elementary

Frank Sinatra

This such beautiful song starts with these lyrics. Surprisingly, once when I was singing this song to myself, I heard two guys talking about marriage. They were Mr. Curry Oz and Professor Thin King.

- Hey Tiny, you remember the guy who married off the couples secretly, because of the emperor who prohibited the marriage?
- First; don't call me tiny. Second, he was Saint Valentinus which known for St. Valentine's Day. And the emperor was Claudius II of Rome in 4th century BC.
- So why does an emperor prohibit such an act like marriage which regulates the order of society?
- Because, Claudius thought that marriage caused lack of power in wars. As you know until modern era, marriage was prohibited to the soldiers in many countries.
- By the way, why people needed to marry someone, I mean why did the marriage notion start?
- Before beginning of the mass agriculture, people had not needed to marry someone because polygamy was spread out and they were living in clans. In marriages between clans, men were joining to women's clan. Because men were temporary; they were the ones who had to deal with environmental problems such as wild animals and their duties were harder. After mass agriculture, men started the gain control of the clans due to their characters which tend to fight. They had not to deal with environmental problems now. To legitimate their system which descends from father to son they had to know the children's fathers. To secure monogamy they brought the family system which depends on marriage. Love is the way to control your mind to make you accept the patriarchal, commodity based social human lifestyle.

1 yorum:

  1. you began to your blog with a nice lyric and that was cool and emphasized that nature of a marriage like what males expect and what females expect from a marriage and the problems that this differentiate occurs. I totally agree at this point because i believe that different expectations determine and form new problems in the marriage and even it is true for homosexual ones whether it is allowed or not.

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