{"id":25739,"date":"2014-12-21T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T05:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25739"},"modified":"2014-12-13T09:43:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T14:43:12","slug":"qotd-the-family-as-something-to-escape-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/12\/21\/qotd-the-family-as-something-to-escape-from\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The family as something to escape <em>from<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>What many movement conservatives can\u2019t or won\u2019t understand is that for some of us, the \u201cfamily\u201d should not be the base unit of society, because it can just as easily be a locus of evil as for good.<\/p>\n<p>To many people, the \u201cworld\u201d is a haven from a heartless family.<\/p>\n<p>I am forever bowled over by my Jewish friends\u2019 affection (or at least, infinite tolerance) for their families. When one of them suggested that I set up some kind of enterprise with \u201ca trusted family member,\u201d I reminded him that, being a gentile, I <em>have no trusted family members<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of wanted to increase one\u2019s ties to one\u2019s relatives rather than snip them as quickly and permanently as possible is utterly foreign to me.<\/p>\n<p>Radical leftists are half-right in wanting to reduce each individual\u2019s forced reliance upon their families for lifelong security and prosperity. They went wrong when they held up the State as a replacement. You can always, if you absolutely <em>have<\/em> to, kill your family. But the State is, at the end of the day, immortal and a million times more powerful.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy Shaidle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivefeetoffury.com\/2014\/05\/13\/christopher-lasch-was-one-of-those-pseudo-conservative-writers-like-chesterton-buckley-and-burke-who-left-me-cold\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Christopher Lasch was one of those pseudo-conservative writers, like Chesterton, Buckley and Burke, who left me cold&#8221;, <em>Five Feet of Fury<\/em><\/a>, 2014-05-13<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What many movement conservatives can\u2019t or won\u2019t understand is that for some of us, the \u201cfamily\u201d should not be the base unit of society, because it can just as easily be a locus of evil as for good. To many people, the \u201cworld\u201d is a haven from a heartless family. I am forever bowled over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,41],"tags":[431,968],"class_list":["post-25739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-quotations","tag-conservatism","tag-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6H9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25740,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25739\/revisions\/25740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}