What has changed us?
Many many things. For example, my parents never watched a moment of TV until the early 1950s even if then. Even I never watched TV regularly until I was 5 or 6 years old and even then it was specific programs like cartoons, Superman and later Wyatt Earp, The Rifleman, Jim Bowie and the one with James Garner and later Bewitched with Samantha the Witch and Twilight zone.
Then one by one things began to change like Cassette players so you could listen to your favorite songs while being mobile. This changed people a lot and this combined with VHS Video Tape recorders made people much more individualistic and began the age of pornography which continued onto the Internet and still does. Then people started social media sites and stopped talking to each other so now you have people falling in love with technology rather than other people.
As devices become more human like through voice and soft plastic robots that sound like your mother or Father or lover (male or female) people can just drift into a fantasy world with no consequences at all rather than deal with anything real at all in their lives.
As reality and consequences become more Disney like and removed from people's lives (at least in the middle and upper classes) this just means that the poor worldwide will be supporting the unreality of the rich whether that is sexual or food or goods and services.
As people get more and more relieved from consequences and reality a certain type of chaos dawns which reminds me a lot of the show "Avenue 5" on HBO about a stranded Cruise ship in space. It's written as a comedy but the way people are now it isn't hard to imagine a future where something like this actually happens to the middle and upper classes aboard this cruise ship in space.
Especially after what happened to the Diamond Princess regarding the coronavirus in Yokohama harbor in Japan with at least 600 people who though quarantined now have the coronavirus or who have died already with it.
So, when people of today talk about sexuality and sex it is not even the same thing in many ways that it was to us in the 1950s through the 1970s (at least until AIDS changed everything during the 1980s and made people paranoid and crazy once again like they always were before.)
From my point of view being a man, sex was always like food to men and when people are starving for food they do crazy things. And when men at least don't get sex sometimes they do crazy things.
Trying to create a balance in your life usually isn't achieved by being celibate because often this just makes you more insane in the end. So, this is one reason why I became a householder yogi to be married raising a family as a discipline that works for a lifetime. Often now I'm watching my single male friends start to wither and die or go crazy now by their 60s whereas I'm still going strong in my 70s. Maybe it's true that single people die 10 years younger than those who marry. This is what they say anyway.
One thing I do know for sure is that without my wife to act as a medical advocate for me I would have died from the heart virus in 1998 or 1999. So, I'm grateful for my family and even more grateful I became a householder Yogi to create some balance in my life ongoing.
By God's Grace
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