the timboucher experience

One of the best parts of that Chalice and Blade book though was when she talks about what the return to traditional family values really means when it gains strength in the culture, as it is right now. She basically says that the family acts as a training ground for individuals relationship to society. If the family is structured in such a way where the father is the head of the household and his word is law, then the individual will have an easy transition to accepting a society at large which is ruled by an autocratic government. Conversely, if the family is not structured like that, then when the individual enters society, they will not understand or possibly accept a society which is ruled over by such a government.

Here is the actual passage from page 129:

If we look at the family as a microcosm of the larger world - and as the only world a small and pliable child knows - this “disrespect” for the male-dominated family, in which father’s word is law, can be seen as a major threat to a system based on force-backed ranking. It explains why those in our time would force us back to the “good old days” when women and “lesser men” still knew their place make a return to the “traditional” family their top priority.

This makes so much sense to me that it’s shocking. I’ve never read anything that so fully explained why people are so threatened by modern alternative family arrangements.

• One Ring to Rule Them All
• Holy Family Values
• Gender Roles & Population Reduction
• Retro Fads
• Civil Society