G.K. Chesterton: “what destroyed the Family in the modern world was Capitalism”
“It cannot be too often repeated that what destroyed the Family in the modern world was Capitalism. No doubt it might have been Communism, if Communism had ever had a chance, outside that semi-Mongolian wilderness where it actually flourishes. But, so far as we are concerned, what has broken up households and encouraged divorces, and treated the old domestic virtues with more and more open contempt, is the epoch and Power of Capitalism. It is Capitalism that has forced a moral feud and a commercial competition between the sexes; that has destroyed the influence of the parent in favour of the influence of the employer; that has driven men from their homes to look for jobs; that has forced them to live near their factories or their firms instead of near their families; and, above all, that has encouraged, for commercial reasons, a parade of publicity and garish novelty, which is in its nature the death of all that was called dignity and modesty by our mothers and fathers.”
– G.K. Chesterton
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The feudal ties between humans in a family is what still keeps them backward. ☭
What precisely are the feudal ties you refer to and in which way do they keep human beings backward?
The #1 thing we ought to be building is families. We instead build… things, for the sake of building bigger things, so that a handful of people can reap greater profits. We do so at the expense of families. Workers have become little more than commodities. It’s become absurd to pay people a living wage.
Society has taken on the mentality of Ebeneezer Scrooge. Corporate power has taken over our society.
“MANKIND should have been My business! The Common Wellfare should have been my business! Charity! Mercy! Forbearance! Benevolence! Wer ALL My business. The dealings of my trade.. were but a drop of water on the CompreHensive OCEAN… of My… business. — Jacob Marley’s ghost from Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”.
Couldn’t agree more Dave…Our families are the personal link we have between our past and our future.