People Who Champion The Nuclear Family And Insist That It Is The Only Way To Have A Healthy Family, Are

People who champion the nuclear family and insist that it is the only way to have a healthy family, are ridiculously misinformed.

The nuclear family as has been enforced by monarchial, state, and corporate powers is an exceedingly recent invention.

Humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years.

We evolved to be cooperative breeders, with communities that heavily engaged in alloparenting.

A parents' ability to "stay together to raise a child" would have had zero bearing, evolutionarily or otherwise, on the child's safety and development.

That's because most humans used to live in real societies: in which the priority of humanity was to look after and take care of one another in community; rather than recklessly competing to atomize and exploit communities for the sake of profit.

As such, children would have developed a wide array of complex, mutually-consensual relationships with pretty much anyone in their community that they vibed with -- not just with parents and other blood relatives.

"It takes a village to raise a child" isn't just a cute, feel-good saying.

It's ancient wisdom.

Internalized Fascism

Seriously.

If you want to know the shape of the fascist cage that media has constructed inside our minds, our parents' minds, and our grandparents' minds over the years?

Read that awful "Screenwriter's Guide for Americans" slop that Ayn Rand wrote.

And then, if you're a creator?

Go forth, and do your damnedest to make works that depict and stand for the OPPOSITE.

Reminder:

• They first targets of the Nazis were the Communists and Trade-Unionists.

• The books the Nazis burned were books about communism, and about the scientific, concrete evidence validating the existence and experiences of Queer and Trans people.

• The Communists beat the Nazis in the end.

Reminder:

The number on the weight scale is not a reliable indicator of one's health.

Your metabolic numbers (blood sugar, blood pressure, etc.) and body function/ability are.

Even More Important, Bonus Reminder!!!:

PEOPLE WITH MEDICAL ISSUES AND ILLNESSES ARE ALLOWED TO EXIST, ALLOWED TO BE CARED FOR, AND ALLOWED TO HAVE LIVES.

A "CONCERN" FOR "HEALTH" IS NOT AN EXCUSE FOR YOU TO BE A EUGENICIST PIECE OF SHIT.

Just because someone "doesn't know what eugenics is", doesn't mean that they don't engage in it; the same way that people who have zero idea how racism works, can still be racist.

Plenty of people, during the covid lockdown, were of the opinion that elderly, disabled, very young, and chronically-ill people were being "entitled" for expecting others to have the decency to mask up around them.

To the anti-maskers, the lives of these vulnerable people were not worth the slight inconvenience of wearing precaution. They instead believed that the vulnerable should just go ahead and get sick and die in order to "improve the species" or some nonsense.

Many of them have no idea what the definition of eugenics is. Yet they engaged very eagerly in eugenicist thinking and behaviors.

It's not wrong to not need to be "saved" or "chosen" by a god.

You don't need a god to follow good morals.

And you don't need a god in order to live a good life.

Humans evolved to thrive when they have good connections with:

1.) Themselves (i.e., they come to know and understand and accept themselves as human beings);

2.) Their Environment (i.e., they spend time in, and, if they so choose, nurture and do a bit of tending in the natural landscape that they call home); and,

3.) Their Community (i.e., maintain authentic, mutually-consensual, and close ties to family, friends, and/or other members of their community: building and becoming part of the interconnected support networks that help their communities to function and thrive).

We have sentience apart from these foundational human wants and needs; so we get to choose to pursue skills, crafts, fields of knowledge; and personal or communal goals that appeal to us and that make us happy...but aside from choosing that purpose voluntarily for ourselves, what is wrong with just living a good life and loving and caring for and helping the people and the lands around you in whatever little ways you like?

Why is that not enough?

Does everyone really have to have an overblown 'Chosen One' complex in order to be worth anything?

Because all those little ways of being can add up to something immensely beautiful and satisfying... provided, of course, that the current systems in which we live aren't actively preventing, undoing, and sabotaging our connections to them.