(September 30, 2018 at 8:08 am)Mathilda Wrote: I missed this thread and don't really have time to read it at the moment. But I think that there is a problem with masculine traits not really being that required so much in society any more. In earlier times, men would go off and fight in wars, or other tribes or hunt big animals which could easily kill them. Physical strength was also far more useful before the age of machines. This means though that the drives and urges are still there but no outlet to be useful. But they still have to go somewhere.
I'd agree with this, but with a caveat-- the evolution of humans is maybe a million years, and the development of modern society is 2000 years or just 50, and even that only applies to Western societies and a few modernized Asian and African ones.
With the rapid advances of technology, it may be that the day of the human brute is done forever. Boots on the ground may not mean anything anymore if swarms of billions of tiny drones become the new face of conventional warfare, or if our biggest threats come through the internet.
