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Jane Austen's Advice: Choose the Right Man and Live Happily Ever After

Daniel30 Wrote: Apr 18, 2012 6:38 AM

The listlessness I saw as a hangover from the post-Soviet era was a listlessness produced when the state takes on the role of father, husband, provider, and protector. Men in the modern state with its socialist all encompassing tendencies have lost their ancient roles which they grew up seeking to fulfil for millenia. All that was left for them was military service for the state. Or escape. In the Soviet Union it was alcohol, in America drugs, gangs, and video games.

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Jane Austen's Advice: Choose the Right Man and Live Happily Ever After

Culture Challenge of the Week: Finding A Good Man

Call it the lament of the young, single woman: there are no good men left. Or if there are, where are they? And how can a young woman pursue a healthy, marriage-minded relationship in a singles culture of casual sex and perpetual adolescence?

In her new book, The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After (Regnery Publishing, 2012), Elizabeth Kantor provides some answers. She writes, “Of course it’s no secret that modern mating rituals have gone badly wrong.” And indeed they have: the number of cohabitating couples...

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