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" Chaos, the eternal feminine, is also the crushing force of sexual selection. Women are choosy maters (unlike female chimps, their closest animal counterparts). Most men do not meet female human standards. It is for this reason that women on dating sites rate 85 percent of men as below average in attractiveness. It is for this reason that we all have twice as many female ancestors as male (imagine that all the women who have ever lived have averaged one child. Now imagine that half the men who have ever lived have fathered two children, if they had any, while the other half fathered none).41 It is Woman as Nature who looks at half of all men and says, “No!” For the men, that’s a direct encounter with chaos, and it occurs with devastating force every time they are turned down for a date. Human female choosiness is also why we are very different from the common ancestor we shared with our chimpanzee cousins, while the latter are very much the same. Women’s proclivity to say no, more than any other force, has shaped our evolution into the creative, industrious, upright, large-brained (competitive, aggressive, domineering) creatures that we are.42 It is Nature as Woman who says, “Well, bucko, you’re good enough for a friend, but my experience of you so far has not indicated the suitability of your genetic material for continued propagation. "
― Jordan B. Peterson , 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
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" Marx intentó reducir la historia y la sociedad a la economía, considerando como cultura la opresión de los pobres por parte de los ricos. Cuando el marxismo se llevó a la práctica en la Unión Soviética, China, Vietnam, Camboya y en cualquier otro lugar, se redistribuyeron de forma brutal los recursos económicos. Se eliminó la propiedad privada y se colectivizó a la fuerza el mundo rural. ¿El resultado? Decenas de millones de personas murieron. Centenares de millones más fueron víctimas de una opresión comparable con la que todavía existe en Corea del Norte, el último baluarte del comunismo clásico. Los sistemas económicos resultantes eran corruptos e insostenibles. El mundo entró en una guerra fría prolongada y extremadamente peligrosa. Los ciudadanos de esas sociedades vivieron una existencia llena de mentiras, traicionando a sus familias, delatando a sus vecinos, existiendo en la miseria, sin quejarse (y más les valía). "
― Jordan B. Peterson , 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos