1/Against “traditional” families: The right sometimes lionises imagined “traditional” families as perfect as opposed to atomised Western modernity. I disagree. The clannish type families of Pakistan or Jordan certainly have intimacy & bonds more powerful than Western atomisation.
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I'd prefer clannish kin networks to civic atomism, given that in the latter one has little recourse except to rely on the whims of the state.
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