The birth rate is plummeting. Everyone is aware of this. Elon Musk raises the topic quite often. The reasons why people aren't making babies are mostly economic, but why men aren’t having sex anymore is entirely different.

The Divorce Rate in America hasn’t changed very much. The stats we all know are still about the same: 50% of marriages end in divorce and that number goes up the more often people get married after that. The answer to why the likelihood of getting divorced increases with each marriage is fairly obvious: you picked the same person or you haven’t fixed yourself. Not super interesting.

Women Are Sexual Savages

I’m rewatching True Detective Season 1 for what is probably the 7th time. The writer, Nic Pizzolatto (an Italian btw), infused many Schopenhauerean and Nietzschian concepts into the intense dialogues between Rust Cohle and Marty Hart. Much has been written about the root of the philosophical themes in this season and as you know, I am not one to theorycel. Regardless, it’s impossible to watch True Detective S1 without seeing the obvious contrast between Rust and Marty and who they are as men. Let’s begin with Rust.