#individualiusm

Our culture often seems to combine the promotion of and prurient interest in hedonistic behavior alongside a puritanical mortality -- we live in a puritanical world, we could say. In other words, on the one hand, we are encouraged to have fun, to be completely selfish and pleasure-seeking, but, on the other, if we make a mistake, or become the target of others, there is no limit to the social punishment that can be melted out.

When working well, the family can provide sanity, protection and normality, a small haven amid chaos. A politics that seeks to displace or disrupt the family will not, in any case, last long. It no longer seems to be politically radical to advocate for destroying or 'abolishing,' the family. On the contrary, eliminating the family very much suits an economy and culture that create and prey upon the isolated, atomic individual. The couple too can be a 'secret society.'