[yeron]

Dwa artykułu z #theatlantic (5 artykułów z darmowym dostępem miesięcznie)
1. O rodzinie atomowej i jej porażkach. W Ameryce, ale pewne rzeczy będą podobne w Polsce link
Wrzucam fragmenty, ale warto przeczytać całość, mimo iż długie.

If you want to summarize the changes in family structure over the past century, the truest thing to say is this: We’ve made life freer for individuals and more unstable for families. We’ve made life better for adults but worse for children. We’ve moved from big, interconnected, and extended families, which helped protect the most vulnerable people in society from the shocks of life, to smaller, detached nuclear families (a married couple and their children), which give the most privileged people in society room to maximize their talents and expand their options. The shift from bigger and interconnected extended families to smaller and detached nuclear families ultimately led to a familial system that liberates the rich and ravages the working-class and the poor.

Eli Finkel, a psychologist and marriage scholar at Northwestern University, has argued that since the 1960s, the dominant family culture has been the “self-expressive marriage.” “Americans,” he has written, “now look to marriage increasingly for self-discovery, self-esteem and personal growth.” Marriage, according to the sociologists Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas, “is no longer primarily about childbearing and childrearing. Now marriage is primarily about adult fulfillment.”

In other words, while social conservatives have a philosophy of family life they can’t operationalize, because it no longer is relevant, progressives have no philosophy of family life at all, because they don’t want to seem judgmental. The sexual revolution has come and gone, and it’s left us with no governing norms of family life, no guiding values, no articulated ideals. On this most central issue, our shared culture often has nothing relevant to say—and so for decades things have been falling apart.

We can’t go back, of course. Western individualists are no longer the kind of people who live in prehistoric bands. We may even no longer be the kind of people who were featured in the early scenes of Avalon. We value privacy and individual freedom too much.

2. The Sad Path From Reaganism to ‘National Conservatism’ zelda
#polityka #neuropa

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The Sad Path From Reaganism to ‘National Conservatism’

@yeron: polecam w temacie również The Atlantic na bazie fenomenalnej ksiązki:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/how-america-lost-its-mind/534231/

BTW jak se pomyślę, że gdyby nie te debile z PO które wybrały Komorowskiego w 2010 to obecnie Anka by była naszą Pierwszą Damą to aż mnie trzęsie ヽ( ͠°෴ °)ﾉ