Posted on 08/18/2019 9:14:59 AM PDT by Rummyfan
A former classmate from Yale recently told me “monogamy is kind of outdated” and not good for society. So I asked her what her background is and if she planned to marry.
She said she comes from an affluent family and works at a well-known technology company. Yes, she personally intends to have a monogamous marriage — but quickly added that marriage shouldn’t have to be for everyone.
She was raised by a traditional family. She planned on having a traditional family. But she maintained that traditional families are old-fashioned and society should “evolve” beyond them.
What could explain this?
In the past, upper-class Americans used to display their social status with luxury goods. Today, they do it with luxury beliefs.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The scarcest “luxury good” for Americans today is an intact family.
Sybaritic twit.
Bump!
I have a friend whose wife is a government school teacher. She doesn’t believe children need fathers in the home, despite all the empirical evidence that single-motherhood is a recipe for living in poverty and failure in school.
Her two children were raised in a home with a father of course, but that doesn’t mean anything.
“The scarcest “luxury good” for Americans today is an intact family.”
You nailed it.
When laws are enacted to combat white privilege, it won’t be the privileged whites who are harmed. Poor whites will bear the brunt.
This is 100% true. When white teachers and professors talk about ways to "de-center whiteness" and suggest subtle handicaps and humiliations for white students, what they are really saying is "I don't deserve my status or my career, but I'm not giving up any of it. I'll just make the next generation pay for my privilege. That way I keep the house, the car, the career, the benefits... and I'll make other people's children pay for it."
Alas, this is so true. And statistics clearly show that kids from single parent homes generally don't do as well in school and have some social problems. If the parent who cares for them is the woman, they are generally not as financially well off. If the mother is working to support the family, she has little time to devote to discipline issues. This is where you get a lot of your ghetto thugs with no respect for authority. I've seen it firsthand. Where these idiots come off thinking marriage is optional, etc. haven't seen the results I've seen in city classrooms.
“But she maintained that traditional families are old-fashioned and society should “evolve” beyond them.
What could explain this?”
AFFLUENZA!
“Luxury Beliefs”
BRILLIANT TERM - I’ve been looking for a concise term for the Left since college, and this is it!
So, back during the Cold War, a Leftist could be anti US-nukes, since they had big daddy (conservatives) covering their backs. Leftists could be for destroying the inner cities, since the had big daddy still running the suburbs, to which they moved.
The list is endless...except there is a LIMIT. What happens when big daddy is out-voted, and no one is left to protect them from their “Luxury Beliefs” anymore? Then life for them will get FAR MORE DIFFICULT. For example, gays in Europe that support the importing of Muslims by the millions, knowing that big daddy will still protect them (mostly)...but, eventually, and sooner rather than later, they will be living under Sharia. No more big daddy - so those ISIS videos will be their futures.
What we believe is very powerful and determines our future.
Believe the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and God's gift of righteousness and enjoy a density of LIFE!
Ask her what 99% of the country's inner city gang bangers have in common.Of course,the answer is..."no father".
“In the past, upper-class Americans used to display their social status with luxury goods. Today, they do it with luxury beliefs.”
Minor point here: It is now Luxury Beliefs and Teslas.
Rather, just BEGIN to believe.
Or a mutiple of dads.
She’d just call me a racist.
“Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson), who served in the Air Force, is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge.”
Typo here, it should say “WAS a Ph.D. candidate”, at least after this piece makes it to his department at Cambridge.
Thanks for the word of the day!
Does she encourage her husband to have unlimited affairs...so long as he is home for breakfast?
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