>>106212006
i have a friend. we hung out all the time as teenagers and young adults. had so many experiences together.
he's married with kids and i am still the same person i was 20 years ago. i almost never talk to him and he never interacts with me. we don't text or call each other.
i'm not sad because i realized friendship is an illusion. it's part of the brains primitive prosocial wiring, just a neurocognitive tool to prevent the species from warring itself into stagnation and extinction. i've never been in love either; another device from the evolutionary toolkit.
i yearn for the day AI is such a good conversationalist and assistant that i never need to rely on a person again.

>>280153780
>You've had this explained to you many times before
we're all anonymous here retard. you don't know who i am.
>Polygamy literally causes brain damage and ruins people ability to pair bond and form relationships. Both platonic and romantic. It's been outlawed everywhere, and the only places that support it are mentally ill third world shitholes.
doubtful, polygamy/polyamory were almost certainly the norm for most of human history; asymmetrical power would lead to asymmetrical accumulation of wives. it was only with the rise of nation-states in antiquities and the middle ages that is was firmly stamped out in much of what we call The West by the SPQR and what followed it's collapse. again, it's more equitable if each man can only take one wife; there are more available women for the other men. since women are only very slightly favored in sex determination, there are mostly equal groups of both, so 1:1 is the optimal ratio, if marriage is the goal.