State Crimes - The Murder of the Family

Sounds pompous, I know. Still, if you think about it for a moment, it has something, doesn't it?

Remember when you played with your cousins in the backyard, running to the front when you heard the car of your dad arrive, as he came home from work while mum was setting the table?

You didn't? No cousins close-by, TV dinners ala Nucleator, Working mum, grumpy parents?

Flashback. About 50 years ago, things in the developped world still worked pretty much the way they always had. Single income household's, stay-at-home-mums, wholesome brats, saving accounts, mortgages paid off before the parents reached the age of 40...

Then something happened that changed this "norm" to current scenario of illequidity, single parent households and lots of pent up anger and frustration whereever one looks.

What did happen?

Women got the vote. Naw, I'm just kidding. The state elbowed its way into the spot where family was being held together. The mutual assistance and support system (financially, emotionally, spiritually) that are the very fabric of what makes human civilization, grown and strengthened over Millenia, since time immemorial, has been replaced by social security, laws, court appointed counselling and other poor subsitutes.

The social system of the state has divided families and singled out individuals, glorifying their uniqueness and stripping them of their humanity in the process.

Nowhere is it more obvious than in a high-rise apartment building in large cities. Neighbours rarely know, and never really for, each other. Families gather in some vague traditions on Christmas and one or two other annual occasions, mostly unwillingly and awkwardly, heeding the call of the grand parents, lest they be forgotten when the old geezers kick the oxygen habit and their loot is up for grabs.

There is no love lost between the generations. But that is not necessarily new, nor is it at the heart of the problem. What is, is that people can't relate to their own flesh and blood. There is no respect for each other anymore.

Material gain, government secured, individulism, state-mandated, has replaced the warmth and strength only family bonds can provide.

Don't believe me?

Why are people so angry?
There is no respect for another anymore.
Why is crime and vandalism so rampant?
There is no respect for others' property anymore.
Why people so unhappy, forever chasing unattainable dreams?
People lost the ability to appreciate what they have, and forever want something else.

In short, people are instictively missing the security and hold, a family provides,
and the contentness and reassurance that sibblings, but more so parents, routinely gave since man left the caves.

Think about it.