I bet you are really bored of my “Call the Midwife” posts.
But guess what. I don’t care. It interests me. This week was very insightful and
something we could talk about. Because the episode is right on point with the
Supreme Court decision today.
The big reveal this week was that the birth control pill had
finally come to socialized medicine in England. The pervy doctor who seduced a
nun away from the convent was all excited about peddling birth control to all
the people in the East End. He is especially happy to
give it to the unmarried people so they can go out and screw indiscriminately.
And the British Socialized Medicine will pay for it Sandra Fluke. Imagine that.
Opposite him is Sister Julienne the head of the Convent. Who
wants him to stop for a minute and think about the effect this will have on the
family and the community. That maybe this might not be a good thing. That maybe
we should look to religion and associate sexuality with marriage and committed
relationships instead of fumbling in the convent hallway. Which happened with
one of the nerdy nurses and the randy pervy priest who is working his way
through the nurse population like a less murderous Richard Speck. Sister
Julienne thinks that maybe they should not be peddling contraceptives as
members of a religious order. Think of her as the Little Sisters of the Poor.
They have a seminar where they discuss these issues. Dr.
Perv says “What a great thing this is. It will stop the unwanted pregnancy. You
do know that 10% of the births in Poplar (the East End) were out of wedlock. We
can stop that.” Imagine that 10%. Not the 50% we have now. I mean what could
possibly have caused that? Abandoning traditional values. Trashing marriage.
Trashing men and telling woman they can do it all their Murphy Brown
selves. Putting women on the dole so
they can spit out rug rats and get paid to sit home and watch TV and eat chips
while they wait for some dude who wants another baby momma. Nah that can’t be
it. It’s not like the tight neighborhood where out of wedlock woman are shamed
and forced to get married. Why that is positively immoral. We can’t have that.
Socialized medicine, welfare and the government can step in and handle that.
They are from the government and they are there to help you.
Of course this show is made by ultra-liberal douches so the
Nun surrenders in the end and they will be peddling birth control pills. The
very liberal doctor gets his way. Even the horny priest is shown to be a hypocrite
and a loser. He was horn dogging Nurse Gilbert and got Brylcreem splooge all
over the wall at the convent while they dry humped. When Sister Julienne turned
to him for support he goes “Well let’s see what the government guidelines are.”
Not what the doctrine of the church that he is supposed to embody. Think of him
as the Pope. Useless.
The Supreme Court pussied out and threw the “Little Sisters
of the Poor” case back to the appellate court. Specifically saying they are not
ruling on any of the issues and telling the parties to work it out. You
remember the cast. It was one where the government demanded that Nuns provide
their employees with birth control and abortficants. The Nuns objected and said it was against
their religion. The government said they would withhold funds and fine them
severely. Not as much as not baking a pervert a cake but still enough to
bankrupt them. The Supreme Court couldn’t be bothered to rule on this. Because
of course it makes sense to force Nuns to violate their religion because the
government says so. You know instead of getting together a Vigilante posse to
hang these fuckers from the nearest lamppost.
This is where we are now. You have to bake a pervert a cake
or a pizza or you lose your business and are fined hundreds of thousands of
dollars. You have to make Nuns pay for birth control and abortions. You have to
let a dude with a dick into your little girl’s locker room. If you don’t the
government will try to destroy you and your business and your family and your
religion.
I think we have passed the point of no return. The country
is too divided. You can’t count on the Congress to protect you. You can’t count
on the Law to protect you. You can’t even count on your religious leaders
anymore. So I don’t really know how this will end. I hope that we can change
our direction.
I am eying a lamppost.
Did you ever notice how much room there is on your ordinary lamppost? Just sayn'
33 comments:
Well, never say never but I'm pretty sure the traditional way of life isn't coming back anytime soon. I'm not a futurologist and most speculating about "the Mess we are in" is silly or pompous or both. Here's a thought. Maybe mankind has crossed a great divide and so it is acceptable that a significant part of the population now leads pointless or "whirling lives," to quote Saul Bellow. What made crossing the great divide possible? Technology. So much can be produced by so few...because of machines, that it's not a catastrophe if many are superfluous. Yes, it's a catastrophe for them, spiritually, but the world doesn't go under. The virtues of self-disciplined self-controlled lives weren't just good things until very recently, they were necessary things, life and death things. But now technology has done away with the NEED for virtue. I think that's the thinking of the very wealthy NWO types. They can live with a large carried population, a pagan yet docile population, while they go about amassing still greater wealth and power. Like it or not that's where we're going. Because technology. On the other hand.......
You don't know, ric.
The "traditional" way developed over millennia and was the result of observing human nature and understanding what worked and what didn't. In the face of that 50 years is a heartbeat. We're drunk on technology still (how long has it been with us, since the end of WWII, the 20th century?).
I am a big fan of apocalyptic science fiction. I would love for Synova to weigh in on this.
The premise of a lot of this fiction is that there is a cataclysmic event. You know. A meteor. An alien invasion. Currently they love a pulse bomb that destroys communications. No internet. No computers. No debit cards. The world ends.
I don't think the world will end with a bang. I think it will be with a whimper. Death of a thousand cuts. The destruction of the family is the deepest cut. The basic unit of human existence since we lived in caves. The family. The clan. The force of government and society is chopping away to destroy it. They have done an unusually effective job.
So it would appear and you're right about civilizations.
Look at Rome. It took about 500 years for it to collapse and another 1000 for Western civilization to reinstitute itself.
Family is something that transcends the state, however, and even though the state wants to supplant the family, the ongoing failure of the Blue Model (talk about your rolling collapse) would seem to imply society can do without the state better than it can the family.
YMMV
Personally I think contraception is not a bad thing. But the promotion of its use by religious authorities sends the wrong message. Look the Church should stand for something. It is entitled to its belief's. To preach them. To live up to them. It's adherents are entitled to follow the dictates of their religion regardless of what that might be.
Now I am a purist in that regard. I feel that if the Mormons want to have more than one wife that is fine with me. Same with the Muslims. If the Jews don't want to eat pork who am I to judge. If the Navajo's want a little peyote go for it. I just draw the line at human sacrifice. That is a little over the line.
But not much. If they promise to only use liberals I might have to think long and hard about that.
The can sell some cages for the Wickerman at Bed, Bath and Beyond.
Ed the family is at risk more than ever before. Now the United States government is directly attacking it. They are doing all they can to weaken it and to replace with an overarching government. Aid to dependent children. Deciding what sex you child is without reference to you. Letting them get abortions without your consent. Little by little. Chip by chip. Cut by cut.
A whimper not a bang.
The only family structures that will survive are the ones glued together by religious practices that promulgate chastity, fidelity and love. All of the ones considered radical and dangerous by the likes of Obama and Hillary and the New York Times. Mormons. Orthodox Jews. Conservative Catholics. The only one that escapes their direct attack is the Muslim. An outliers from our discussions. Because the Muslims are part of the liberal strategy to destroy the other faiths.
Insane to be sure. Because societies that are dominated by Muslims will proceed to kill the people who are now their apologists. Liberals. Homosexuals. Feminists. Intellectuals. They will all be put to the sword as infidels. It is happening in Germany as we speak.
I agree with what you say.
My point is the state, as we think of the Leftist concept of it, is also sinking.
My point is that family serves a primordial need. If the Lefty state crashes - and I do believe it is in the process of doing so - the family, of necessity, will reassert itself. I agree that right now things are bleak because the Choom Gang has done everything it could to do to white people what the Demos did to black people - and to make things that much worse for black people.
However, what we see in the rebellion of this year and the rise of the Trump and, yes, even the Cruz (if only symbolically) candidacies is a realization of how bad things are.
This is why I keep bringing up '68 and '80. There seems to be only so far the Left can go before society understands a course correction is necessary. In this case, given the carte blanche afforded President Pissy and the damage allowed to be done, as well as the damage done through blithering incompetence, that correction may prove more radical than we would otherwise expect - essentially Pissy making an otherwise predictable correction more popular and far-reaching than otherwise would have happened.
You may be right in your analogy of Trump as John the Baptist in that sense. We do seem to be approaching an almost millennial juncture in history, witness Europe, and, if something along those lines does occur, we may find ourselves the beneficiaries of a generation of Peter the Hermits come to our shores with warnings of what lays ahead on the road the Left would have us travel.
I remember when decades-long/lifelong monogamous matrimonial commitment was the mainstay of humanity starting with the development of farming right up through the height of Rome.
Actually, it wasn't. It only became some sort of expectation with Christianity - which incidentally became quite popular once Rome declined into an empire.
Minor detail, I'm sure.
America was built on strong nuclear families. That's exactly what propelled those whoring, gun-toting, Indian-fighting cowboys west as they implemented manifest destiny and expanded our border from sea to shining sea.
Yep. The most mobile, least compact and most selfishly individualistic/capitalistic Western democracy is surely bound to populated by people who keep unbreakably close bonds to their three most-special kin.
Well, if not then we can always have Facebook - the most genuine "family closeness" machine ever invented. Because we're Americans, that's what we do.
If we have to move hundreds or thousands of miles for that job, then by golly we post notes on our family connection machines to let our loved ones know that we care about them and how close to them we really are.
Lol.
Not sure what point Ritmo is trying to make here, but, if he's telling us the West was won, or Rome was built, by solitary cowboys or Legionaries, his history is woefully lacking.
Again.
America was built on strong nuclear families
The nuclear family is a minor version of a tribe, which is smaller version of a community, which is the lower step below a town etc etc.
The nuclear family is the foundation upon which everything is built. Destroy that and you have taken out the underpinnings of civilization. You destroy stability, continuity, community and the cooperation between family and between civilizations.
The goal of those who which to destroy this most basic of human connections (ala free sex, immoral unconstrained behaviors) is that they "think" that they will be able to replace the family and other social constructs and become the ones in power.
Power, money and control. It is always about those three things.
BTW: those who think that they can replace the human condition of family and put themselves in control are sadly mistaken. They will have taken the Genie out of the bottle and the uncontrolled chaos will overwhelm them.
Then...eventually, we will, as humans always will, go back to the tribal state that is our nature. The family unit may not be the same...mom, dad, kids....but it will be a family unit.
We definitely shouldn't have extended families. Extended families are too big, ethnic, and, you know, tribal. Not Anglo-Saxon enough. Detracts from the neatness and tidiness of 2.1 children. 2.1 just in case, you know, 0.1 don't make it to adulthood and replacement.
So, this move from 5 kids, to 4, to 3 to 2.1 was great and all - but totally unpredictable that we'd get to less than 2. Why, some women don't even have kids at all! Sacrilegious!
But the point is obvious. More than 2 kids: too ethnic to be American. But somehow we should assume that any less than the 2 - 2.1 in a precise unit of holy matrimony (as determined by America's national churches) is flat-out wrong. And worse, having friends that you consider as good as family is just plain communist. Or maybe Italian. Something un-American, in any event.
These family planners would be better off with a slide rule and a bean organizing project than talking about the inanely intricate and anal-retentive ways in which they suppose America's families should be "structured." I feel like they're reading from a script that might have inspired Leni Fucking Riefenstahl.
BTW: those who think that they can replace the human condition of family and put themselves in control are sadly mistaken.
Sounds to me like it's the "family values" crowd that's doing that one, what with all their talk of "units" and whatever other bullshit they want to use to divide Americans from each other.
The nuclear family is a minor version of a tribe, which is smaller version of a community, which is the lower step below a town etc etc.
Emphasis on the word, "minor".
The nuclear family is the foundation upon which everything is built. Destroy that and you have taken out the underpinnings of civilization. You destroy stability, continuity, community and the cooperation between family and between civilizations.
What bullshit. I'll bet $20 that my huge extended family is more civilized and cooperative than your tiny nuclear family - with its prescribed number of protons, neutrons and electrons.
America is a dysfunctional place largely because it expects not only to make a stable four-person breeding unit a commandment, but because it expects that people can grow up psychologically normal without having a bunch of close uncles, aunts, grandparents, godparents, and other close friends to vent to when your two-person "unit core" goes crazy with its own sense of control over the people that it made to come out of their genitals.
Um, where did anyone say the extended and nuclear families were mutually exclusive?
Seems to me the exact opposite.
Um, where did anyone say the extended and nuclear families were mutually exclusive?
I dunno. I just find the term "nuclear family" to be some type of abhorrent code for being anti-neighborly, judgmental of others' lives and relationships, dismissive of large extended families and their ability to keep the tyranny of two lordly parents in check. I get flashbacks to propaganda cartoons from the 1950s that tout the wonder of nuclear power, the beauty of living in a disgustingly cookie cutter-box abomination of neat suburban sprawl, the disintegration of towns, cities and open-air markets. Just fascism upending the more natural human arrangements that have always existed.
It's not coincidence that the words for "city" and "civilization" and "citizen" all have the same root. Suburbanized, nuclearization of what people used to think of as family is part of the abomination that did away with those former associations and realizations.
Much of the human race would beg to differ.
I'm glad you got a chance to poll them all.
Families work more often than not. These social experiments rarely work. The only blessing in this is these degenerates don't have children, they just act like spoiled ones.
"I know children because I was one once."
"I'm an expert on nuclear families because I was raised in one."
Fascism works, too. That's its saving grace.
It does?
Please cite an example. Document your sources. Spelling and neatness count 10%.
Rhythm and Balls said...Fascism works, too. That's its saving grace.
Back to science fiction...
...from the Wiki page on the original Star Trek episode "Patterns Of Force:"
Barely coherent, Gill explains that he initially imposed a form of Nazism/Fascism upon the lawless Ekosians because he believed it to be the most efficient system of government ever devised. Spock concurs, stating National Socialism enabled a defeated and bankrupt Germany almost immediate governmental recovery to the level of near global domination. The system worked on Ekos until Melakon gained control and twisted it into a tool to wipe out Zeon. (link for context)
I think all children should grow up in happy homes where the parents love and respect each other and provide for their children. Gossamer wings would also cut down on commuting time and would be so much cooler than flying cars........In one episode of GOT, Jamie Lannister threw his sister down upon the funeral bier of their murdered son and raped her. I am both the progeny and patriarch of a dysfunctional family, but I feel almost certain that my parents would never do something like that, and to the best of my memory I never did anything like that either. That's why I like GOT better than Downton Abbey. My family is so much better than any of the families you see on GOT. I don't think we've risen to challenge of family life with quite be same amount of nobility that one encounters in a BBC soap.
Does fascism work? I am not sure that is the case. After the corruption of the Wienmar, any sort of industrial build up (at least in the short term) would seem better. Didn't Germany supply itself in the short term by kleptocracy? Would it have been sustainable?
William, you are all over the place with that post! But I am glad to hear you wouldn't rape your sister at your child's funeral.
Do they speak Austrian in the "Wienmar" republic?
Australian!
I just find the term "nuclear family" to be some type of abhorrent code for being anti-neighborly, judgmental of others' lives and relationships, dismissive of large extended families and their ability to keep the tyranny of two lordly parents in check.
@ Ritmo
That is your constipated view of it, I suppose.
The nuclear part of the nuclear family is just that...The nucleus. The core, mother, father, children. Around that nucleus there is the rest of the family which includes other relations: cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, great uncles and aunts. Also often included in those circulating around the core are other entities that may not even be blood related but are close, such as a bachelor or spinster friend who has been drawn to and attached to the core. Think of it as an atomic structure with a nuclear core and revolving atoms which can come and go around that core.
Then when you get more of the nuclear families and their extended groups (the atoms) and those units combine with other nuclear groups you now have a small tribe. The tribal units may form together and become larger. Then a community. Then a city. Then a State.
It is all atomic my dear Holmes...I mean Ritmo.
This organization has been the basis of civilization from time immemorial. Those who want to be the only ones in power such as the top dogs in a Socialist organization starts with disassembling the core, the nucleus and try to insert themselves, the government as the nucleus. This is what the overreach of current US goverment with the cradle to grave control is all about.
As an aside, I've been researching my family genealogy (yeah...I'm retired and have some free time...so what?) and have discovered a lot of fascinating and surprising things. The records available are amazing. It is like a mystery or a puzzle slogging through it.
One thing that really stands out, especially in the US census records of long ago was how many of the households not only had a huge amount of children, but that there were included in the household other relatives and non relatives.
Some of my ancestors had as many as 12 children with one spouse. Usually 5 to 8 was the average. Every 10 years, the composition was changed, adding and subtracting from the group. Sometimes the core, mother and father would change. Mostly because the wife just gave out after having so many children.
The other fascinating thing is that in the early census records the occupations of the individuals is included and you will see the children aged 10 and upward, also have occupations listed. EVERYONE worked, even those who didn't have a job/job like the wimmins and chillins who stayed home. They had to work in order to survive. The nuclear family wasn't a cute little social construction. It was a unit necessary to survival.
The government has taken over many of those functions of the nuclear family and to be honest, the inventions that have made life easier have negated the necessity to have so many freaking children, thereby decreasing the survivable size of the unit.
Reduced rates of child mortality also diminished the need to have lots of children just in order to have a few reach their majority. Many of my ancestors had plenty of children who died in infancy. That is a tough legacy to overcome, but advances in medical science played a big role in making families smaller.
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