Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the single biggest reason people are unhappy is because they are unfulfilled. A man who lives as a child, no matter how wealthy, is unfulfilled. Even as a woman who sleeps with a different man every night remains unfulfilled. This is because human beings are part of the natural world, we have natural natures and when those natures are perverted to other means, we must be unfulfilled. A bee separated from the colony and given unlimited honey to eat will not live long. That’s because it’s really separated from its own nature. You might say the bee dies of sadness. The very same sadness that comes from being unfulfilled. What then is fulfillment, smarty pants, you could ask. I would say returning to our natures, having families, kids, and having human lives, is being fulfilled.
They claim people are more unhappy now than ever in human history. If they are to be believed. Setting belief aside for a moment, such a state of affairs is to be solved as soon as possible. The first step to solving any problem is to identify it. Next is to pinpoint where it comes from. Folks when asked will name a multitude of reasons why they are unhappy. Each reason more tragic than the one before. People will claim they need more of this or that. In doing so they blindly reach for that which they know not. What is more money good for if not to invest in a family? Who on their death bed lamented not getting the expensive car instead of braces for their children? Happiness tracks fulfillment and fulfillment tracks living a human life, not a plastic life.
History shows that destitute people were and are often unhappy with their poverty, but otherwise happy with their life. I think this is because they were and are fulfilled. Contrast that to today, when our every want is met instantly. The microwave oven is too slow nowadays. Life was much harder but there was fulfillment in it. They didn’t live the artificial life we live today. Most people were married and had children. They were too busy to invest time in complaining about how hard they had it. Contrast to today, when people have time to think about how many material goods they don’t have. We dwell on how much we are missing out, but seek it in diversion not real life. Rock climbing, wind surfing, and sky diving are exciting and fun, but in the end they lead to a sad and lonely old age.
There is no denying the statistics that show industrialized nations have low family formation. They are in demographic decline, and loneliness is on the rise. In many nations, they can’t even produce enough kids to maintain their population. In their brilliance the elite in those countries have begun importing people from the third world, to take the welfare there aren’t enough locals to take anymore. With the newcomers comes a new culture. The same culture that kept the nations they came from third world, superimposed on the first world. The imported, however, don’t have the reluctance to start families that those raised in our corrosive culture have. So the lonely get to watch their replacements getting the very thing they so much need but can’t get. A family.
The answer is multi-pronged. Individually, those who are lonely need to stop seeking comfort in the arms of strangers. Set family formation as a goal, not a problem to be avoided. Culturally, demand the cultural elite provide family-friendly shows. Nationally, eliminate laws that hinder family formation, punish innocent fathers, and fail to protect battered women. Taxes must be rethought to encourage family formation. Mostly, the culture that tells girls that motherhood is alienating from their natures but the slut life is liberating… must be vanquished. That evil message has ruined countless lives and created untold Eleanor Rigbys. Girls who demanded they would never be under the thumb of a man, so “pick up the rice from a church where a wedding has been…”
Sincerely,
John Pepin
