16 years since the lion kingdom last fell in love.  16 years sober, so to speak.  The previous record was 12 years. Young lion knew best when he determined the social order wasn't going to work out.

Culture has shifted in the last 30 years.  30 years ago, there was a lot of pressure to stay alone & not have babies.  Nowadays, there's a lot of pressure to make babies & have partners.  Part of the change was going from an austere era 30 years ago to a time when most animals are dying with a lot of money.  Instead of pension funds that expire upon death, animals are accumulating enormous wealth to fund retirement & leaving it to descendants.  A lot of other goals which used to be possible in a single generation now take multiple generations, like owning a house.

As far as longevity, living longer used to be a highly touted plus of relationships.  Nowadays, it's not touted anymore because it's been attributed to selection bias.

We don't have monogamy like 30 years ago.  Polyamory is the big thing now.  The juice in polyamory isn't worth the squeeze. To have kids, you're normally going to be single parent if you're lucky or raising another man's kids.  It most often requires buying a house.  Suspect many houses which aren't investments are just for retaining custody.

Knowing it's only based on social status took away the magic.  It's less about love & more about checking boxes.  Lions may have been affected more by anxiety than love.

Lions have transitioned from having nothing to lose 16 years ago to having a lot to lose in a relationship.  The biggest risk today would be somehow feeling marriage to some animal was the only way to survive, actually succeeding in marriage, then losing everything in a divorce or lavishly trying to win over someone.

 Lions have completed at least half their life & time is running out to do lots of other things.  16 years ago, they were only 1/3 done & could afford a big investment in an animal.

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Dreamed about a typical situation, losing & getting back a cherished doll in childhood.  In reality, the last memory of playing with it was summer of 1990 & that memory was only of using it to make sound recordings.  After that, it was quickly forgotten.  For something that cherished, there's surprisingly little memory of it, just the memory of the intense dependence on it & fear of losing it.  

It was the same as the dependence on love & the passing of love.  They were times of anxiety over imagined crises.

Couldn't get the doll story in Furiosa.  Started remembering something while rewatching the Aliens doll.  Now, it's a bit more obvious why the doll was so important in these movies.

Not even sure when it became landfill.  Interest was believed to be in rapid decline by 1988 & gone by 1992.  Would guess the switch flipped in summer 1988 when the doll dependence became animal dependence.  It spanned 10 years at most.  There were no photos of it.  Seeing it again would be either surreal or haunting.  When you don't have anything from the past, it's like you've only been alive for a few years & the sense of time is missing.

Old lions could always make a new doll out of yarn, the way it originally was, or print a new one out of ninjaflex.  Young lion couldn't do that & it caused a lot of anxiety.  No way to go back & tell young lion he was going to make it without the doll, the animals, & in fact would one day find it easy to walk away from the animals.