Just a work thought while welding tonight.

I have a young daughter. Was thinking into the future when she starts dating - in the old days as a father, the men who would come to 'court' my daughter would have had a man-to-man type talk where I would show them my gun collection, talk to them about how much my daughter meant to me - then add the fact that I'm old anyways so not really afraid of dying or jail.

If you think I am joking about that, you would be wrong, BTW.

Chad would be crapping his pants on the way down my driveway. Beta Bob on the other hand would be clutching his cowboy hat, doing a 'Yes Sir' 'No Sir' routine while nervously shuffling his feet. And it would have been the beta who ended up with my daughter.

It's been more than 50 years since this kind of 'vetting' was allowed. And this occurred because No-Fault Divorce opened the floodgates of 'I'm unhhhhaaaapppppyyyy' and women started bailing from their marriages in droves - stripping fathers of their ability to keep everyone in their family in line and on track - sons daughters and wives.

Lots of other 'causes' but I think this is the main one.

And I will add - I know it seems like there is no light at the end of the tunnel - but as Marcus Aurelius said :

How quickly things disappear.

You saw on the news today that the Norks can now reach pretty much every point on the planet ?

How many women do you think even understand one percent of the consequences of such an event ? Even how many men can grasp that kind of sea-change ?

I don't know exactly what's gonna happen - but imagine a world where a few nukes get dropped (or more than a few) and the worldwide economy collapses.

Imagine what happens to unrestrained Hypergamy in a world like that.

So here I am in 2017 hoping the North Koreans do my dirty work for me. How fucked up is that ? LOL