So, why is it?
You've just got to wonder. Why is it, why on earth is it that men and women are so adept, so often, at twinning themselves with those who are so obviously inappropriate for them? Case in point: Pierre Elliot Trudeau, one-time Prime Minister of Canada, a sharp and witty intellectual, a seemingly avowed bachelor, well beloved of women, loving them in turn, makes his final selection: a very young, quite pretty dimwit. True, before she stepped lightly away from the marriage she produced three sons, but is that enough?Case in point: Prince Charles of England, he of the critical mindset, the most intelligent of a sadly debased lot whose interests in organic farming, architecture and watercolour painting, let alone his many charitable endeavours, mark him as a man apart making his selection: a too-young, tentative and prettily ditzy poseur whose complaints with respect to the burden marriage imposed upon her palled mightily. Providing endless fodder for the British tabloid press with her pursuits of lovers to soften the reality of her rejection. True, she produced two sons, but is that enough?
Why do men make these obviously poor selections? In the long run if they chose women more suited to their temperaments, their interests, their cerebral functioning, would not marriage have realized more success?
As prototypes of a certain kind, these two stories resonate. And women? Why on earth do so many women, both of imbecilic variety and the more intelligent ones make overtures of desperate undying love to men who have been imprisoned for the safety of society? Why do so many women feel comfortable in presenting themselves to convicted rapists, murderers? Why, why?
Still, if one ever despairs about the state of committed relationships both within and without the confines and comforts of marriage, one has only to look around to see people seemingly suited to one another, so in the end, nature does have her way. Despite a rather dimming of intelligence resulting from a surge in irrational emotionalism, people do luck in. Look at the newspaper pages, for one thing, devoted to anniversaries, and even in relatively small populations, it's surprising to see the number of couples 'celebrating'(remembering) 50th anniversaries. Through thick and thin?
Just fodder for thought...
By the way, the nuptials just taken place in Britain, which saw Prince Charles married to his Camillia does restore a much-needed balance in the enquiry. Long may they live, in peace and in love. And shame on the British news media.
Shame on Charles, too, for shaking hands with Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe (at the funeral services of the late Pope John Paul II), that miserable excuse for a helmsman whose population is facing starvation as a result of his nasty little machinations.
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, April 12, 2005
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