"Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as
an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its
structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class
has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or
fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford
to become either tolerant or intellectually stable...Totalitarianism demands, in fact, the continuous alteration of the past, and in the long run probably demands a disbelief in the very existence of objective truth." -- George Orwell
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It's hard to say, really, what one should "do" about all of this falseness that's crept into our society. The family unit is obviously being altered. Everybody seems to have an idea of how to make it "work" better - by further deconstructing it. We've got a 50% Divorce Rate, Shared-Parenting, Gay Marriage, 5-Parent Families, unsustainable birth-rates, and over half of children now go to bed without their biological father in the house. I think marriage has been fixed enough, don't you?
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