Trojan War and Marital Separation
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Ilya Shambat@21:1/5 to
All on Mon Jul 17 22:10:25 2023
According to some people, Menelaus was right to start the Trojan War because his wife left him to be with another man.
By that standard Russia should invade America because there are many Russian women married to American men.
Now Paris and Helen were frequently accused of hubris; but the hubris of Menelaus was far greater. He thought that his possessive interest over his wife justified him in leading a whole country into war and destroying a whole city. My wife left me as
well, but I never did anything similar.
Greeks are known for having been misogynistic; and there are two sources of that influence. One is the wrong lessons learned from Trojan War. The other is a result of having ridiculously high expectations for women. If you have unrealistic expectations,
you will be disappointed with most of what you get. So they expected of women ridiculous things and became misogynistic when the women couldn’t meet these expectations. They passed down this disastrous attitude to posterity, and women today keep
suffering as a result.
As for the Trojan War, wrong lessons have been learned from it. Some people see romantic love as vanity; but I’ve known matches made by scientists and military people of World War II generation that started with love at first sight and were still going
strong when the parties were in their 90s. And while Iliad blames Paris and Helen for the war, the true villain was Menelaus.
It is inevitable that people will make romantic attachments. It is also inevitable that these get challenged. This reality needs to be dealt with as all human realities. People must solve such situations in a peaceful and civilized manner. Having
maintained a positive relationship with my former wife, I know that this is possible. And I highly recommend that path to other men.
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