How to destroy a culture
by Campbell Campbell-Jack, A Grain of Sand:
Future historians will look back on our day with wonder. They will try to puzzle out just how it was that a handful of ideologues managed to convince the elites of our powerful institutions, political, educational, business, media and through them entire nations, to believe absurdities such as the notion that feelings triumph over science, and that sex is entirely flexible and dependent upon emotion.
Scholars will spend hour after hour writing PhD theses on how an advanced industrial culture dismantled itself by embracing the utterly fatuous idea that competence in every field of endeavour had to take second place behind perceived personal identity. Choosing leaders and workers on the basis of their sex, race or sexual preferences is a recipe for eventual destruction.
The Family. Most of all they will be totally unable to grasp how a highly developed culture could quite deliberately set about destroying the institution which was foundational to its development and success: the family.
We have witnessed the deconstruction of the family. We have moved with ever-increasing pace from the widest understanding of the family, the clan, to the extended family with a close network of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins; then to the nuclear family of parents and children, until finally we have arrived at the destructive concept of the atomised family where none of the above are necessary.
Marriage, when not ignored, has become a system of temporary contracts which can be easily broken and reformulated at will. Elderly parents can be parked in euphemistically named ‘care’ homes where they may or may not receive actual care. Instead of fathers, children can have a succession of ‘uncles’. We teach children that the normative family is an illusion, that any combination of parents of whatever sex is a family and must be accepted and respected as such. The family has been reduced to such an extent that it no longer exists as a social construct. When anything can be a family, the family has disappeared.
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