While it is undeniable that Science has made the quality of human life better & medicine has controlled the innumerable scourges which plagued humanity, they have by no means made earth a paradise. Though plague, cholera, polio have been tamed, new scourges like AIDS, COVID etc., have surfaced, spreading with lightning rapidity across the globe because of air travel.
As far as marriage is concerned, free choice of partners of choice was supposed to alleviate the agony of arranged marriages. But, no, incompatibility of natures led these also into divorces. The irony is that hardly is the (metaphorical) ink on the divorce papers is dry, than the partners rush headlong into another marriage, proving that (futile?) hope triumphs over (bitter?) experience.
One probable reason for the above myths is the marginalising of religion & spirituality in human life. Not only Hinduism, but Christianity & Islam also unequivocally teach that love of God must take precedence over wealth & human relationships, which are transient at best & repulsive at worst. How else to explain that the same features which attracted the partners to each other, are themselves the cause of repulsion later on in many cases?
Here Schopenhauer, the German philosopher, felt that the attraction between the sexes is a ruse contrived by nature only to ensure the propagation of the species in which the happiness of the partners is of no interest to nature.
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