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More than the immigrants or capitalism , I would boil it down to breaking up of the family as the fundamental building block of society. The 'very recent' soci
by zed88 7y ago
More than the immigrants or capitalism , I would boil it down to breaking up of the family as the fundamental building block of society.
The 'very recent' social engineering has thrown western societies in a depressive state.
Even in the age of plenty, we miss the family bond in our solitary lives.
- devoply 7y agoWell liberation came through technology and politics where women who were quite dependent on men became no longer dependent on men economically or in fear of being impregnated by them. You could not escape that reality before, and so single families proliferated alongside a legal system which encouraged that rather than the patriarchy which forced people to stay together for the kids even if they could no longer stand each other -- or one party was abusive towards the other.
- malvosenior 7y agoAn alternative theory, and I think much larger reason for the destruction of the family unit is that individualism was heavily marketed by mainstream media through the 20th century. People shifted their wants and desires in marriage from one of creating a family unit to that of finding personal enlightenment. The excellent documentary The Century of the Self covers the evolution of marketing, the baby boomers and the psychology behind individualism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self