A Horrifying Realization
I had a horrifying realization today: my subconscious views single women as a scarce resource. (This is in the context of wanting a wife.) This is horrifying for several reasons, the first of which is that women are not a resource, scarce or otherwise. They are individual, unique people. Not that I don't expect that to be obvious, but I think it's worth stating. It is also the view of my conscious mind, which is why I find this revelation about my subconscious so horrifying. But there are two other reasons that I find this mindset (that single women are a scarce resource) to be horrifying. The first are the implications that come from that mindset, and the second is the origin of that mindset (because if it arose in me, it can arise in others). It seems to me that emotions have their home in the subconscious. As I understand it, we emotionally process stimuli far more quickly than we intellectually process that same stimuli. This means this mindset (that single women are a scar