![]() ![]() In fact any type of commitment is perceived as compromising freedom. Families are where kids spend the night.Īs for marriage: a long marriage has come to be seen as a limitation of one’s freedom of choice. Time for non-didactic activity, all the space for childhood adventure and discovery, will be squeezed out of their existence even during holidays when learning camps - supervised by “pros,” of course - take over. Our system is thus geared now to turning kids over as soon after birth as possible to “experts.”Ĭhildren will be schooled one way or another by “experts” all through childhood. #SINGULARITY SPECTRE PROFESSIONAL#Parents are regarded as dilettantes and if children are to have equal opportunity, they all have to receive the same level of professional education. Society is stabilized: no striving for upward mobility, no fears of falling off the social ladder.ĭo we need marriage, a family unit, to give kids a childhood, an upbringing, an education? In Germany, the debate over child care subsidies has shown that the model of parents bringing up kids, being a part of their education, is obsolete. Joblessness thus becomes obsolete: everybody occupies the professional role he or she was programmed for. Imagine a reality where people can be “optimized” as per economic requirements, genetically engineered for whatever way they will later be productive. Creating artificial people is possible, as Ray Kurzweil has written in The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. Not only are out-of-wedlock births on the increase, but ways of “perfecting” babies are as well. What can marriage and family still be good for in our day and age? Cohesion? When each person suffices unto him or herself, and self-realization means realization of the self on its own, the need for social cohesion evaporates.įor offspring? You don’t need marriage to bring children into the world. Outsourcing is sapping the core of marriage and family to the point where only their empty husks remain. More threatening than the violence of the past is the silent undermining going on today. Marriage and family have survived any and all assaults launched their way. Neither Robespierre nor Hitler, not Stalin, Mao or Pol Pot managed to wipe out the family, however much they may have tried. The core family unit has held through natural catastrophe and revolution. Marriage and family are evolution’s great stabilizers. ![]()
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