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I've never known a secular family who was healthy and tight-knit
My grandparents raised their kids with ambivalent adherence to Catholicism, and thus most of their kids' marriages ended in divorce.
My cousins are SJWs who moved to big cities.
When my grandparents die, the final shred of familial cohesion likely dies with them.
My cousins are SJWs who moved to big cities.
When my grandparents die, the final shred of familial cohesion likely dies with them.
Growing up, my (extended) family would congregate in dozens on a biweekly basis -- drinking, playing cards, laughing. Birthdays and weddings were monthly affairs.
Now I see my first cousins twice a year.
Now I see my first cousins twice a year.
Each proceeding generation of my family increasingly embodied a departure from commitment to marriage, tradition, God.
My parents were practically unwed teenagers when I was born. My father is an atheist.
My parents were practically unwed teenagers when I was born. My father is an atheist.
This weekend, some family and I visited my sister and her newborn child - we all live in different states.
We said our salutations an hour ago. I can hear my cousin sobbing in the hotel room next to mine.
We said our salutations an hour ago. I can hear my cousin sobbing in the hotel room next to mine.
This cousin is a big city journalist who also denies God. She tells everyone she doesn't want kids.
Her mother divorced her father when she was 7 -- her stepmother is a pathological narcissist and her stepfather is a drunk.
Her mother divorced her father when she was 7 -- her stepmother is a pathological narcissist and her stepfather is a drunk.
My girlfriend's family are secular progressives from NYC. I can count the number of living extended family members she has on two hands.
Divorce only became a normal feature of society within the last two generations, breaking a ~700 year tradition.
I'm 24. Instead of having kids, my generation makes memes about killing themselves.
I'm 24. Instead of having kids, my generation makes memes about killing themselves.
Transgenderism, hypersexuality and other exotic forms of self-abuse aren't "progressive": they're collective symptoms of trauma millienals sustained from the dissolution of our families.
Q: Why don't millennials want kids of their own?
A: Because they intuitively understand how catastrophically traumatic their own childhood was and can't bear the idea of replicating it for another generation.
A: Because they intuitively understand how catastrophically traumatic their own childhood was and can't bear the idea of replicating it for another generation.
Tradition perseveres because it addresses something fundamental about human nature.
A tradition is an efficient social mechanism which mitigates chaos.
Even animals have tradition - we're less than that if we forsake ours.
A tradition is an efficient social mechanism which mitigates chaos.
Even animals have tradition - we're less than that if we forsake ours.
Millenials crusade to "end social norms, yo" is them doubling down on their parents dysfunction instead of pain-stakingly confronting previous generations' complicity in destroying tradition, culture, and spirituality
