I think something that shows like Cowboy Bebop and other Sci-Fi intuitively picked up on was that culture is heading towards the birth of found-tribes, as opposed to birth-tribes. Birth-tribes would be the tribes you are born into, and the ones you have access to in a limited sense based on where you live. Found-tribes are something different though I think, and I believe that this is the natural evolution of a global world.

What Cowboy Bebop got right is that as both individuality and collectivism get pushed to their logical limits and privacy becomes less and less real in both a micro social (friends, family, coworkers, the commons) and meta social (the government spying apparatus) sense that people start to feel alienated from essentially everything. Every character in Cowboy Bebop is alienated from something, for some reason, before they all come to meet one another they are trapped in collectivist systems where the only way to truly survive is to be individualistic and bide your time.

This to me is what the modern world has become. We find relation to others not from happenstance but from a shared alienation, we bond over what we have shed off and rejected, we find comfort in others who we only could have known in this day and age. This is what I mean by the found-tribe. I think this is increasingly common and it almost seems like a return to pre-agricultural ways of thinking, yet at the same time, within a post-industrial framework that is not collapsing but the opposite, ever expanding and growing. In the playground of technological progress the most adaptive strategy is to fall in line outwardly, but not inwardly.

Those are the people who survive regime changes, they are the people who survive civil unrest. When people hold onto that idealism too strongly they are shot down, hammered down, never paying attention to the swaying of the tides, so never being able to prevent their own drowning.

Where does love come from in this kind of world, where does trust come from? In the past these things made more sense, monogamy and polygamy both had their roles in the maintenance and establishment of societal systems, yet in this new world we enter none of these things matter anymore. Monogamy makes sense for an agricultural top down world, and polygamy makes sense for a chaotic and bottom up world. Neither of these matter anymore. No matter who you are you can have children in the near future, you can have as many or as few as you want. The 'breeding' era is essentially over, cities grow and grow and people become more individualistic and inward focusing, babies are born whether you say anything about it or not, if you want to the option is there. Thus, relationships of the future cannot be about childrearing. They also cannot be about romantic love in the traditional Victorian sense, no, love in this new age is decidedly something far different, it is an almost return to the caveman era, the era of abstractions with regards to love are stripped bare.

The time of Tristian and Isolde is over, not their love of course, but of their tragic fates. No longer must love be tragic, no longer should love be tragedy. In the world of tomorrow which is presently today, what can traditional frameworks offer us beyond informing our outlook for the future? I think they offer very little. So... this may seem somewhat unrelated to the question at hand, but personally I think this is extremely relevant. All of these frames of reference, even the seemingly new ones like 'polyamory', are completely outdated for the world that is coming. To answer the question simply, yes, one person can meet all your needs, and that person is yourself, and increasingly this becomes more and moreso the case, the pragmatic reasons for relationships and marriages fade away, and with them the sacrifices we make for their sakes. We should increasingly start asking the question, how do we love in a world where there is no reason to love beyond love itself, and what shape does love take in such a world?