Re: [UUPoly-L] The Great Open Marriage Catastrophe

[John Ullman <jsu627@earthlink.net>]

Many people, from Dr. Ruth to the Bushtians are happy to call open 
marriage, the polyamory of the '60's, a failed experiment. I just ask 
if they call the attempts at powered flight in the decade between 
1893 and 1903 failed experiment. That would be easy to do, because 
there were scores of expensive, painful, disastrous attempts at 
powered flight. Oh, there was one exception, but they didn't manage 
to stay in the air more than a minute and went less than 1000 feet, 
so the Wright Brothers don't count.

Polyamory can be looked at as a relationship technology. Its success 
should be evaluated by what works, not by what doesn't (although the 
latter is interesting too.)

John U