William Costello

You also had the monastery, more peaceful kind of way to occupy them, things like that.

But we've run out of those devices, really.

War and the monastery and things aren't the same cultural institutions they once were.

But we do have the internet, and that seems to be what's pacifying modern young men from being out causing young male syndrome problems.

They seem to be spending their time in front of screens and video games or online.

And there's lots of problems with the online hostility that incels engage in or that.

But, you know, the other alternative might be worse.

If they weren't being occupied in those virtual worlds, they might actually be causing more trouble.

Yeah.

So he wrote a really good essay in response to this, to his criticism, where he cites a lot of the literature where culturally enforced monogamy or socially enforced monogamy is absolutely a common reference in the literature.

So typical with Jordan Peterson kind of critique, it gets hyperbolic, the most extreme version of what he's saying, no sense of charitable interpretation at all.

And they're kind of suggesting, yes, that he's saying we need to, you know, really punitively enforce.

And the word enforce is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

What he's referring to is just a cultural norm.

And we absolutely have had and still have a strong cultural norm for monogamy.

You can only book a hotel room as a couple.

You can't book as a throuple.

Now, we live in a strongly culturally enforced monogamy.

It's absolutely the main cultural script currently and has been certainly for the past number of centuries.

So he's saying an uncontroversial thing, but just people are completely uncharitable, as we've seen in many cases with Jordan Peterson.