Ben Shapiro
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Here's the thing: Cassavetes is exactly correct.





Incredibly enough, Cassavetes truly hits on the problem in his little diatribe about incest. "If you're not having kids, who gives a damn? Love who you want," he says. And he's right. If relationships aren't supposed to be about the next generation -- if they're designed specifically for fulfillment of sexual desires -- there's no point to monogamy as soon as it becomes burdensome. That's why the divorce rate skyrocketed in America in the 1960s, as the view of marriage shifted from a child-centric one to a fulfillment-centric one. Marriage used to be about the other -- a spouse, a child. Now it's about you. And the Rolling Stones are wrong - you can always get what you want. And if you don't, well, you simply change up relationships.


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