The beauty of literature lies in its ability to transcend time and space, connecting souls across different eras and cultures.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects. And you can say "Well it's only symbolic that women are nature", it's like no, it's not just symbolic. The woman is the gatekeeper to reproductive success. And you can't get more like nature than that, in fact it's the very definition of nature.
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.