The Political Hat

     Quick Takes – Collapse of Marriage, The Secular Inquisition, and Imperial Precedent

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.

     The focus this time: Decline and Fall.

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     A professor of sociology has opined how spiffy it is that marriage is dying as a social institution:

“As much as I admire happy couples and families, I think this may be one of the few times in history when so many women could choose from such a full range of life choices without penalty or stigma. Since few people ‘have it all,’ why not choose being single if that’s the best option?”

     This is but the celebration of the destruction of one of the key pillars of society and a prelude to our decline and fall:

“[M]arriage developed in human society in answer to a need which is fundamental to most of our species. Whether you approach it from a biblical perspective or an anthropological one, the vast majority of us have a deep seated need to be with someone. To love someone and be loved in return. And, yes, to create new someones who will grow up with the same needs. It’s a survival mechanism which, in many ways, defines us.

“Further, our ability to advance as a society – from the local level to the global one – seems bound to our built-in tendency to pair up and create families. These families, in turn, bond together to form communities where they share their faith, their fears, their dreams, and their mutual need for protection and security. No taskmaster forced us into these arrangements. We fell into them naturally all over the planet.”

     Social collapse happens over time, and more and more abandon those mores that built up what we have, and adopt more destructive tendencies.

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