The Deconstruction of Marriage

Sultan Knish ^ | 27 Mar 2013 | Daniel Greenfield

[GOPJ]

The left's greatest trick is making things mean the opposite of what they do. Stealing is sharing. Crime is justice. Property is theft. Each deconstruction is accompanied by an inversion so that a thing, once examined, comes to seem the opposite of what it is, and once that is done, it no longer has the old innate value, but a new enlightened one.

To deconstruct man, you deconstruct his beliefs and then his way of living. You deconstruct freedom until it means slavery. You deconstruct peace until it means war. You deconstruct property until it means theft. And you deconstruct marriage until it means a physical relationship between any group of people for any duration. And that is the opposite of what marriage is.

Rich21 - you say it's a brilliant piece - what you'll find is that they're all that way - and after a while you'll read and enjoy but be exhausted from commenting on how wonderful they are... because there are no other comments... wait and see... and enjoy.

[GOPJ]

The left's greatest trick is making things mean the opposite of what they do. Stealing is sharing. Crime is justice. Property is theft. Each deconstruction is accompanied by an inversion so that a thing, once examined, comes to seem the opposite of what it is, and once that is done, it no longer has the old innate value, but a new enlightened one.

To deconstruct man, you deconstruct his beliefs and then his way of living. You deconstruct freedom until it means slavery. You deconstruct peace until it means war. You deconstruct property until it means theft. And you deconstruct marriage until it means a physical relationship between any group of people for any duration. And that is the opposite of what marriage is.

[little jeremiah]

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[Straight Vermonter]

That is a thing that many men and women of one generation understand but have trouble conveying to another generation for whom marriage has already largely been deconstructed.
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These emigrants may lack technology or the virtues of civilization, and their idea of marriage resembles slavery more than any modern ideal, but it fulfills the minimum purpose of any group, tribe or country-- it produces its next generation.

I wonder how many on the right are brave enough to admit that they too have been part of the problem by supporting shacking up, easy divorce, lifelong contraception, etc. Once gay marriage became the issue it was too late, the game was already over.

[stanne]

Just getting to this bookmarked article. The girls around here go to the prom as a group. My daughter started talking about the prom (many years ago, but more practically, lately) and transportation - limo and what to do, etc.

I said the guy provides the ride, you get the dress. She said, “well, what if I don’t get asked?”.

I told her that if she couldn’t get a guy to ask her to the prom she couldn’t go.

I think it was a paradigm shift for her, but she knows I mean it.

I’m not, and she’s not, contributing to this emasculation and destruction of civility when I can help it.

In school is where the libs are moving in.