[Split Thread] The Role of the traditional family in aging populations (& is it a bad thing)

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Originally Posted by theprestige (Post 13806918) I would say the only moral unit in progressivism is the collective. Individuals only matter if they represent the progressive ideal for the collective. Individuals who deviate from the program mapped out for the collective are just traitors to the cause.

No. Collectives are useful for activism. You need to be able to divide the world into some analog of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. The tendency is always for these collectives to fragment. The old collective, like women as conceived by Rolfe, is discarded as we dissolve all structures that sit between the individual and the state. The Marxist dream was off a free individual who had escaped the struggle between different collectives by the bottom of the social hierarchy taking over and everybody being subsumed into a single class. Different versions of the same utopian dream are going on here. The function of collectives is the process of deconstruction.

The conception of the Right is that the core unit of society is the family. The Left is focused on the individual and is hostile to the family seeing it as a vehicle for oppressing the individual.

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