Men in the 19th century already had everything completely figured out
>pleasure: women (whores), alcohol, drugs, gambling
>meaning: philosophy, classical music, literature, visual arts
>spirituality: religious by default, conflicted in private
>honor: duel anyone who wronged you or settle it like men
>redemption: a bullet to the head or a quiet return to God
Why did we abandon this perfectly functional system?

>>24581170 (OP)
>Why did we abandon this perfectly functional system?
Rhymes with "news".

Syphilis and Jews, but I repeat myself

>>24581182
>>24581185
Don't think that makes a whole lot of sense, considering they benefited from that sort of society too. Unless you believe they're some sort of agents of chaos?

>>24581170 (OP)
This is what I've been saying.

>>24581170 (OP)
>The nervous system of woman is more refined and more delicate than that in man. This greater nervous sensibility renders her more susceptible to impressions, enables her to dwell constantly in the realm of more refined susceptibilities, rendering distasteful to her all things that are coarse and low, and at the same time endowing her with a greater capacity both for pleasure and for pain. Man's sources of pleasure are not always hers, but in love of her home and its adornment, in love of her children and their well-being, of literature, art, music and religion, she usually surpasses man, save in exceptional cases.
Guide to girls published in the late 1800s

>>24581425
OP is making an idiotic generalization, probably for the sake of fun, but I know this because every great man of the 19th century (and there were many more than in the 20th) complain virulently against the times.
Englishmen can be blamed just as much of Jews. It's the general commercial, productive spirit, this insane consumer economy which is just a complete waste of human energy

>>24582127
>The nervous system of woman is more refined and more delicate than that in man.
I don't think this is true, or its misleading. Man may be said to be more profound and woman more active. And it may be true to the extent that women are better than men because they are more like children--children are very sensitive in this way described

>>24581170 (OP)
A damn foolish thing in the Balkans.

>>24581425
>they benefited from that sort of society too
Some people can't help but destroy everything around them on impulse. They're radioactive.

>>24581170 (OP)
19th century is fucking wack. anyone who's into it outs themselves as a pseud moron.

>>24583014
>A damn foolish thing in the Balkans.
Oh when two albanians "raped" a Serbian with a bottle?

>>24583155
No, when two Chechens "raped" a Russian with a bottle.