Showing posts with label divorce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label divorce. Show all posts

27 December 2008

Just wondering aloud about the rugged individual's chance at love

Poets, mystics, and romantics talk about love as a loss of self, a transcendence of the ego.

On Geert Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions measure, the US has the highest Individualism ranking in the world.

The US also has the highest divorce rate in the world.

Just wondering about a connection. That's all. I have nothing more to add.

11 October 2007

McCartney's Divorce

Paul McCartney accused his ex-wife Heather Mills of just marrying him for his money. The latest reports are that she will get a divorce settlement of about $140 million. It turns out that Paul was wrong. Apparently, she only divorced him for the money.