The Destruction of Kinship
July 2, 2015
A “CORRESPONDENT from an Occupied City” writes:
Josh F., in the previous entry, stated:
“This desire [for self-annihilation] has passed the critical threshold. We’ve crossed the event horizon. Western Man measures his freedom in the metric of self-annihilation and daily grows closer to more primitive “man.””
While I love Josh F.’s description of our current stage as having passed the “event horizon” I don’t necessarily agree that we have reverted to primitive savagery. I think we are much worse off because we are primitive savages with nuclear weapons – the nuclear weapon of a vast, far-reaching legal apparatus, the nuclear weapon of all-encompassing corporations. (Try to boycott one and see how far you get.)
Morever, our new collective morality is worse than anything primitive savages have come up with, and I studied anthropology. Savages accept the primacy of blood kin. Basing one’s entire spirituality on blood kind does’t make them civilized men, but surely recognizing the special, indeed sacred, aspect of blood kin is an innate part of humanity.
The recent SCOTUS ruling upends all that. I predict that the ultimate effect of the ruling will be to strip away any and all laws that are based on blood kin. This in turn will lead to commercial surrogacy legalized in all 50 states, and that the legal categories of “mother” and “father” will be erased. Family? What’s that? Pyrrhic victory, anyone?
“To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.”
— Comments —
Laura writes to “Occupied:”
Isn’t commercial surrogacy now legal in all states?
“Occupied” writes:
NO!!
Surrogacy is illegal in most countries. The only countries where it is totally legal have aspects that are distasteful to Westerners. Also, India tightened up its laws, so now Indian surrogates must go to Nepal to give birth. It’s still legal in Thailand. But most Western countries forbid it.
The U.S. is an exception, if you still call us Western. Once it’s legal in all 50 states it’ll be open season and male couples will have the best of all worlds: white girl’s eggs, and white women’s bodies. Commercial surrogacy is coming up for a vote in the notoriously corrupt New York State Senate. Look at the comments. Near total idiocy.
I predict it will pass, eventually, without a peep, as “gay marriage” passed in the New York State Senate.
By the way, I note that most websites nowadays have reverted to describing “same-sex marriage” as good old “gay marriage.” What’s up with that?
Joe A. writes:
Don’t worry about “surrogacy” when “decanting” will be the thing soon enough, thanks to the great Bokanonsky.
