Family is Everything
I think it’s unavoidable that individualism is overrated. Don’t get me wrong — I used to be an absolutely radical individualist. I considered myself a self-made man. I thought every belief I had was something I individually considered and figured out on my own.
But, simply put, this is false. My mother and father taught me what I know about money, integrity, doing the right thing no matter how it feels, and analyzing everything through the lens of reason. My beliefs and identity are not stand alone — I am the product of my parents.
So what happens when we try to function without our family connections?
Men who go to prison rarely, rarely had a good relationship with their father. Teens who commit suicide almost always just needed a dad to be there for them. Public education and the social hell known as “high school” destroys so many souls, because the human mind was created to be taught and nurtured by family.
Of course, this is all seemingly obvious, right? “Family is everything” isn’t exactly the world’s most original thought. But it’s easily one of the most important and fundamental social building blocks possible.
In my next post, I’ll discuss how the modern man is characterized not by his family, not by his wealth, not by his God — the modern man is obsessed with bizarre social rituals which force him to abandon his basic values.
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Many times I have been called cold. Most people view a strict and rigid belief in the rational and logical to be of a non-emotional nature. One individual literally told me, “it just ain’t got any soul.” I have been called “uncaring”, “uncompassionate”, “boring”, “eccentric” and “heartless”, because I do not abandon my mind during times of social or cultural conflict. However, I propose the opposite to be true: logic is the basis of the greatest of all feelings — respect for the human condition. Without reason and logic, our actions become incoherent. Rather than doing something because it follows a proper order in reality, because it “makes sense”, we do things on the basis of whim — chaotic actions. Look to all the problems of the world: Violence, war, war, poverty, drug addiction — every human problem is caused by a rejection of reason. When one party abandons reason to solve a problem, violence and war become their solution — coercion, force, state action. When someone abandons reason on the basis of their actions revolving their desired partners, manipulation and sometimes even rape become the solution. When individuals abandon reason in economics, poverty befalls them, lives are destroyed. It is said that reason is cold, heartless and “ain’t got any soul.” How foolish. In reason we find the salvation of man’s problems — the answer to economics, the answer to social quagmire, the answer to policy, the answer to questions. I turn the tables on those who espouse feeling and tradition in spite of cold reason — it is you who have no soul, because it is you who destroy your world by closing your eyes. Choose reason and we will be saved — abandon it completely, and mankind is doomed. Remember that you can receive automatic updates of Cold Reason