William Costello

And they asked the same question in return.

What does your civilization, what does your society go to war for?

And he said, things like democracy, freedom.

And they all just laughed their head off at him.

They couldn't believe that people would go to war for such a reason.

So there's two reasons.

To gain brides like that, so your unmarried young men would go to war for that reason, or also just out of a kind of an arms race of we can't be seen to be seen as weak.

If we don't go to war with the others, they might think we're easy pickings and they'll come to war with us, and they probably would.

So it's kind of this...

And it's still used as a motivation for modern war, like even jihad.

They will motivate young men.

That's the precise demographic they want, is young, unpartnered men.

And what do they promise them?

72 virgins in the afterlife, even.

Or the promise of brides in this life, for sure.

Even then, at a more micro level, with gang culture...

A lot of young men probably get into a gang with the opportunity to get some status and get a girl, you know, they don't have many options.

So it's still a very big motivating factor for men.

But one of the kind of...

The white pill about it is that it was this cultural device for occupying your surplus population of young men.