Families are microcosms of society, stable ones pushes society forward while dysfunctional ones pushes it towards breakdown. Women create the safe base and men pushes children forward. Children don't need parental androgyny but male and female different qualities in order to have a proper development. Having a stepfather doesn't work and is even worse than fatherlessness due to the lack of genetic ties that can push the stepfather to be less invested. Having no fatherly physical and psychological presence brings more emotional, behavioral, and physical problems. Divorce destroys the father-children bond because men heavily depends on the father-mother relationship as men tend to view marriage and childbearing as a single package, this is why marriage has become an institution over the years. Divorce used to be extremely rare, not a social norm. The sexual revolution is the main cause of this decline, so is the societal value changes that abandoned responsibility and commitment to others for narcissism. Even though divorce makes parents more happy, that is not the case for children. Marriage was initiated to benefit children in the first place, not to fulfill adult partners even though it signals that their long-term relationship together is socially important. Family helps men fulfilment by motivating them to positively channel their aggressive energy, become socially productive, and cultivate the virtues of honesty, trust, self-sacrifice, and discipline that are necessary to support and become a role model for their children. Men that are the most satisfied with their life overall are fathers of growing children still married to their wife. A male with no partner is often a male with no relationship at all. Marriage pushes towards a healthy, competent and virtuous lifestyle, not the other way around. Leading a family civilizes men. As fatherlessness grows, so will the rate of out of control, unhappy, unhealthy, and unfulfilled men. Children suffer the most from an absent father and, since they are the future of society, it suffers by extension. As Cicero said: "What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.".
David PopenoeWhat was obtainable isn't anymore, you can't get a home and family even if you work hard and are respectful. Religions and ideologies were scarce, now they are everywhere online according to Jean Baudrillard's hyper-reality. Every riot and problems in the world in now in front of you, making everything more intense and detached from reality. Even though you avoid it, people around you are affected by it. The world is changing so much that older people's roadmap doesn't apply to Zoomers. The number of years of work required to acquire the medium-priced house increases every year, adding inflation to that while income doesn't rise makes everything unaffordable. Hyper-reality become the decompression valve. Earning isn't correlated to one's work but one's position in the social hierarchy that's harder to escalate. Passive consumption goes hand-in-hand with depression. Going all-in in hyper-realism still keeps you trapped in a fake life empty of meaning. Avoiding it completely isn't a good idea either as you still need communities, so create your own values. Leverage the little power you have. Worry about your world and close ones, the rest is up too faith.
MoonYou can't like making war, or you lack empathy. Those who are most in favor are those who know they will never go to war and therefore lack empathy. As long as war is profitable, the elite are in favor. If they put as much energy and money into promoting peace and making the world a better place as they do into setting it on fire and blood, we would be moving in the right direction. There are still only two camps: those who have nothing but a little dignity for whom war is a last resort, and those who have no problem waging war by proxy to keep what they have. We just have to take away their proxy.
Kriss Papillon