Breaking the West
By breaking the family
If you want to find the root of the West’s instability, it lies in the constant failure of the righteous as a whole to defend the family. Chesterton said of the family that it “may fairly be considered… an ultimate human institution” (Heretics, ch. 14). The family precedes the state and the church; it is fundamental to stewardship, prior to economy, and essential to longevity (Ex. 20:12); it can make a man, or it can break him. Yet the Western (the American) response has been to systematically destroy it, by perversion and explosion and shaving away of piece and part. To this, in the finest fashion of humankind, God’s people have too often set that kind of conservatism discussed by R.L. Dabney: “Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation.” He was in that case talking about the feminism of his day, a part of that destruction.1
Let’s put ourselves in the shows of the destroyer; let’s figure out how to destroy a family.
