from NY to Israel Sultan Reveals
The Stories Behind the News

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 07:17 PM PDT

Throughout history there have been two fundamental human
institutions. The first is "the family" in the form of the basic family
unit as well as the extended family and the tribe. The second is "the
state" in the form of any overarching institution that claims total
authority and control over every aspect of the lives of those who live
under it.

The family and the state represent two incompatible structures.
It is why the goal of such a state is almost always to disrupt and pervert
the family unit. The Soviet Union taught children the virtues of informing
on their parents, mandating that their loyalty must be to the state above
their parents. Nazi Germany planned to replace the family with eugenics
under the control of the great father figure of the Fuhrer. The modern
left gained a great deal of its power from teaching children to sneer at
and rebel against the values and beliefs of their parents.

The
clash between the family and the state is not that of a battle between
democracy and tyranny, or any such thing. The tribal middle east is filled
with totalitarian dictatorships, and while they are brutal regimes, they
do not seek to supplant the family unit. Instead they are a product of the
family unit, with rule passing from father to son, families held hostages
for the good behavior of individuals. Nor is the state necessarily overtly
totalitarian, in the West it is often be socialism with a human face, a
vast network of bureaucracies with smiley faces pasted over them.

Rather it is a battle between two different systems, the
traditional family unit and the postmodern power of the state. And that
battle has defined the culture wars and the Islamic invasion of Europe,
among many other critical issues, which is why it is vital that we be
aware of it. Because where the state gains power, the family declines.
Birth rates drop, the institution of marriage begins to vanish, culture
descends into the sewer, and amoral and sociopathic behavior begins to
rise among children. All these are connected together by a single thread,
and that thread is the balance of power between the family and the
state.

The family is the root of most human institutions. The Bible
begins with a recitation of families, a man and a woman joining together
to create the human race, on and on through dynasty after dynasty, family
after family. For thousands of years, invasions and migrations came and
went, blending together through the family unit to create the modern day
nations. Angles, Saxons, Normans, Jutes, Goths, just to name a few,
becoming one.

The modern state however has sought to replace the
family unit with itself. Its proponents, both on the right and the left,
have believed that a scientifically managed system of government could
perfect human institutions, bringing an end to human misery and chaos. By
surrendering all power to the state, the state would have the ability to
mold and shape every one of its citizens into an ideal
form.

Liberals have invested more in this belief than any other
group. The perfect state has long been a pet project since the French
Revolution's newborn Republic created its own calendar, its own religion
and holidays-- all in honor of itself. The Soviet Union would recreate
that same self-worship of the state tenfold, with cults of personality for
its leaders, holidays dedicated to itself and total control of the
population right down to their thoughts. The more benign forms of
socialism in Europe and North America used social justice to build support
for collective institutions and new value systems under the power of the
state.

Within the system of the state, the family unit is an
obstruction. Within the family unit, parents educate their children how
they see fit, rather than how the state sees fit. This has always been a
problem, as the state believes that shaping and molding the minds of the
"Citizens of Tomorrow" is a vital part of their great social project. Like
virtually every social benefit, free public education has been a key tool
for placing children under the power of the state.

The family unit also directs loyalty to itself above
the state. This is one of the first things the state attacks, by
demonstrating to children that their parent's beliefs and values are wrong
or outmoded. This is meant to remove credibility from parents and transfer
it to the state. The state seeks to repeatedly demonstrate to children as
they grow, that everything they need, from medical care to food to
knowledge to jobs, they receive from the state. And therefore that the
state should command their primary loyalty.

As the cultural shift
takes effect, popular culture begins portraying families routinely as
"bad" and government employees or liberal advocates, e.g. police officers,
reporters, lawyers... as more appropriate role models than parents. Father
Knows Best gives way to Social Role Model Knows Best.

The
devaluation of the family leads to fewer marriages and lower birth rates.
Careers become more important than marriage. The marriages that do happen
are delayed and routinely end in divorce. Fewer and fewer children are
born. More children grow up in single family homes. Parents become
disposable. Socialization takes place through state education and popular
culture, which due to the decrease of the influence of the family has sunk
down to the lowest common denominator, leading to a rise in gang violence,
sociopathic behavior by children at increasingly younger ages.

This is a pattern that holds true across different nations and
cultures. Falling birth rates for example are not purely a Western
problem, nor are they purely the result of economic prosperity. The cases
of Japan and Eastern Europe and Russia disprove two sides of that formula.
It is not economic prosperity that lowers the birth rate, or else Saudi
Arabia would have a far lower birth rate than Latvia. Instead the
situation is the reverse. The Western and non-Western countries that
suffer from low birth rates generally suffer from one thing in common,
socialism to at least some degree.

If the state is more important
than the family, why bother with children at all? And who has time when
you're working for the benefit of the state. It isn't after all as if the
children will care for you when you're old. That is an outmoded notion.
The state does that. It's not as if they will carry on in the family
business. The odds are against it. Have children so they can carry on the
family name? Their name is more likely to wind up being Sayid or Gonzalez
in a generation or two, no matter what.

To strike the final blow
to the larger family that is the nation itself, to compensate for the
lowered birth rate, immigration radically accelerates population transfer,
destroying the remaining institutions, both religious and secular. The
quieter European and North American socialist version of the war on
religion and nationalism waged more overtly by the French Revolution and
the Soviet Union.

In the end, the state itself proves to have feet
of clay and falls. The family that is the nation is overwhelmed and
destroyed by the corruption of their own culture and the outside invasion.
That is the final formula for the confrontation between the family and the
state.

In destroying the family, the state ultimately destroys itself.
That is a lesson that Russia learned the hard way, and no amount of
frantic effort to revive the Russian birth rate, both during and post the
USSR, has changed the numbers. By 2050 Russia is set to lose nearly a
third of its population and Islam is set to back the dominant religion.
The picture looks no brighter for Europe, where fitful attempts by the
state to encourage parents to do what they have done naturally for
thousands of years once again misses the point. The family is not
something that the state can turn on or off. With its ascendancy, the
state has suppressed the family. The only way to change that is for the
state to step back and once again place the family at the center of the
nation's life and institutions.

Barring that the tragic decline
will continue, and the victory of liberals over the family will prove to
be a Pyrrhic one indeed.