Thursday, November 24, 2005

U.S. Magazine

To mark it's 35th anniversary, the U.S Magazine Foreign Policy recently asked a group of leading thinkers to identify which ideas, values, and institutions will disappear in the next 35 years. This week and next the National Post will print eight of the most intriguing responses. In Monday's (Nov 21 2005) first installment, Jacques Attali predicts...


the demise of monogamous relationships.



Shocking, just shocking news!


I read the above in the National Post and was happy to see someone willing to write about the shift from monogamy for some people and was curious to see what else the article & author went on to say about these people and where they went. (did it say we all went to Hell, or that we were deviants?)

Attali goes on to say that "Just as most societies now accept successive love relationships, soon we will acknowledge the legality and acceptability of simultaneous love. For men and women, it will be possible to have partnerships with various people, who will, in turn, have various partners themselves. At long last, we will recognize that it is human to love different people at the same time."

Truthfully Attali should come spend a week or two in my house to gain even more of an appreciation for how respect, love, trust and multi partnered ethical, polyamorous relationships can look from the inside.

It would seem Attali, by titling the article

Going, Going, Gone...
I Love you - and you and you and you....

would be referring to

Jennifer loves Jim and Allena and kara and Doug and hell for good measure throw in F, S, B & L as people loved

Makes me wonder what next weeks National Post will list as the idea, value, or institution to disappear in the next 35 years? Watch for Mondays paper.

Definition:

The word "polyamory" is based on the Greek and Latin for "many loves." A polyamorous relationship is a romantic relationship that involves more than two people.


Jennifer
Poly & Proud