The industrialization of our nation has come with many blessings that we cannot ignore.
We could rightly point out the increase of wages or standard of living for most families. Of this, there can be no doubt.
We could also point out that industrialization has given individuals more liberty to pursue careers that are more interesting to them. There could be a litany of reasons why industrialization is a good thing.
However, there are also many trades that have been made by societies around the globe that we must look at to combat the ills that have risen as a result.
The primary form of government given to mankind is that of family government. This will seem strange to many, as we often do not think of our family structures as governmental structures, but they most certainly are. The parents have children, they raise those children within a specific religious and/or moral framework, they educate those children to operate consistently within that framework, and those children marry and establish their own governments within the confines of another family.
That is the natural way in which societies progress. It obviously must be this way because it takes the birth of children to create future generations.
Industrialization has drastically changed the way in which families operate. Gone are the days where it is normative for a father to work on his own land. I am writing this during my lunch break at an auto shop where I work, so I am no exception.
Likewise, gone are the days where a mother considers home-making to be her primary career or legacy. We have ushered in a society where both parents are working outside the home and have left the primary functions of family government to be left to the industry of child-rearing. In fact, it is strange to people my wife responds to the question of “Where do you work?” with the answer that she is a home-maker.
Now, I would hope that the readers of this article do not quit their jobs and go home. Nor am I saying that women can’t work for profit. My hope is that we could understand the real danger of leaving our children to trust the teaching of the state, more than they trust the teaching of their parents.
If the state tells your children that gender is not real – and you tell them that God created male and female – who will they trust? If the state tells them that the government should punish criminals based upon race or “moral” integrity, who will they trust? We must consider that our children will trust someone’s authority; they will follow someone’s religion.
Are we exercising authority the correct way and teaching our children with that authority? Whatever you wish our culture to be, you must teach that to your children.
You can certainly believe that the government is doing this and it will be our undoing.
Jeremy Wiggins writes a bi-weekly column for . He is a resident of the Tallulah community.