Over at "The Hell of Massive Dementia," Neo breathlessly alerts us to the impending societal disaster that is fatherlessness, at least when it applies to people who don't hang out at all the right dinner parties:
Be very afraid
You don't need to cruise the scary streets of Toronto's Jane-Finch ghetto, to know that we're on a slippery slope...
"What the 2006 census showed was not that the family was changing: It showed that the family was dying.
It showed a society in deep dysfunction. It delineated, statistically, a very real danger to the future of the nation-state itself."
Nobody had weapons when I was a kid. And whether or not you got along with your father... on some level you knew, at the end of the day... you were accountable to "the man." And there was none of this "time out" nonsense... there was instead, if you screwed up badly enough... "knocked out" and from what I remember it was pretty damned effective.
Apparently though... fathers aren't necessary anymore.
You need additional confirmation that Canadian society is hip deep in societal quicksand, never mind listening to the media. The next time you see one... ask a cop.
It ain't a pretty picture.
On the other hand, the presence of a strong father figure will help avoid all of those embarrassing incidents. You know, like this.
For the hard of thinking, that's we in Intellectual World call a "counter-example." But don't try using one of those at home, kids. Remember, we're professionals.
THE JOY OF LOW-HANGING FRUIT. It had originally occurred to me to refer to this. But that would have been too easy. So I didn't. You're welcome.
P.S. The use of the word "fruit" here is purely a coincidence. Really.
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You need additional confirmation that Canadian society is hip deep in societal quicksand, never mind listening to the media. The next time you see one... ask a cop.
Uh oh another family values / rule of law type. He's probably off cruising for anonymous airport sex with Craig between postings.
These people need to get a clue. You want a cure for societal ills? Start politicians, rich folk and famous folk that break the law like they are criminals not like they are little princes and princesses who used the wrong dinner fork.
'The Family' was never this illusion the family values types hallucinated it to be. All the whining bitching and moaning isn't going to make it so either. My single mother raising me along with my grandmother was just as much a family ( perhaps more so ) than the 'standard nuclear' family of Mom, Dad, 2.5 Kids, Rover and Apple Pie.
Bitching about whether or not Adam and Steve should be able to adopt or if Maria should raise her kid on her own isn't relevant. It's not fixing anything. There are plenty of solutions to the crime problems in industrialized nations and most of them revolve around fixing institutionalized economic inequality. But of course conservatives aren't going to recognize that because they are incapable of seeing a problem for what it really is.
there was instead, if you screwed up badly enough... "knocked out" and from what I remember it was pretty damned effective.
Sure...and look at what a fine specimen of humanity that managed to produce in that ssshole, neo.
...Jesus, these people have absolutely no self-awareness.
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