GRADUALISM
(On family)
- Part one -
By Nadir Martello
12/7/2004
If you want to make an “impossible task”
possible, gradualism is the way to go. What the devil could not
accomplish in nearly two thousand years of history, he did in the
last one hundred years by subtle and gradual means, to the point
that most people, 99% of them, don’t have even a clue what is
happening to them.
Rivers of ink have flown about the ills of
western society, endless talk ad nauseam for years. The media
gives us news of wars around the world, of famines and HIV/AIDS in
the third world, of genocides, of natural disasters, such as
earthquakes and cyclones. But the striking blow is to see that at
least a third of our youth, if not drug-addicted, yet have
experience with illegal drugs. Naturally, most of time the use of
illegal drugs goes with sex and promiscuity, with its related
venereal diseases or AIDS
The point I am trying to make here is that
most of the evil things going on in our world can be attributed to
the loss of one single entity, namely the family. Today the
family is in decline to the point, almost, of extinction.
Family has always been the fabric of society,
and the strong bond in every society on earth from the beginning,
and more strongly from the outset of Christianity. Within the family
the individual found security, care, support, love, and development
of his/her knowledge and skills. In other words, the individual
found in the family a holistic & traditional understanding of life.
In Asian, African, and South American countries
where the institution of traditional family is still alive, we see
still today how well equipped the individual is within it, and ready
to cope with the adversities of daily life, whether physical, mental
or spiritual.
You cannot form an individual in character and
morality if the family is non-existent. The ills in our sick society
illustrate just that. Family is to the individual what the bottle is
to the wine; break the bottle and the wine is wasted; break the
family and its members are lost, as in a no-mans-land.
Gradualism
In our modern western society gradualism, the
devil’s poison, has accomplished this entirely - first by
undermining the family unit, saying that it was not necessary for
the well being of the individual, and then, thanks to the Feminists’
Marxist philosophy, it has almost entirely destroyed.
Historically gradualism is the tool of the
Fabian/Socialist/Marxist movement, which started in the late 19th
- early 20th century. The Fabian Society’s aim was, and
still is, to destroy the Christian society, but in particular the
Catholic Church, because of Her strong stand against
socialism/communism and materialism, especially for her support for
family values, morality, and salvation, through spiritual means, for
the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven, which is the individual’s final
destination.
Today a gradual transformation in people’s
lives is in progress, not for the good I am afraid. We have had
cleverly imposed on us, by the social engineers (government),
through “gradualism”, a modus operandi which creates split
personalities in people. We live in a schizophrenic society, where
religion, which in the past had been the stronghold of every living
person, became a private affair for people who do not have anything
better to do with their time.
A Holistic life versus a multi-purpose life
Human beings have gone from a holistic vision
of life, where religion, politics & economics and social life were a
whole and indivisible unity, to the multi-purpose, multi-choice
diversity, or rather confusion. We see that today, people have many
interests in life, like music, sport, sex, entertainment, travel,
money, politics, history, reading, study, etc.
‘Nothing comes by accident but by design’.
This compartmentalisation has been accomplished
in us by gradualism. As the saying goes, “Divide and conquer.” But
the family, of course, was the first victim of this
multi-purpose
“diversification”, and now
the broken family is, for the wolves and the jackals, the devil’s
last banquet.
Naturally, if the family has been the
stronghold of traditional values, where people lived in relative
safety, and consequently, developed their true identity as part of
society, once the family is broken the members become prey and at
the same time victim of evil influences, like materialism,
modernism, consumerism, Marxism, and many other “isms”.
In this predicament, the modern person without
the family construct, easily accepts, for the market is ‘free’ and
without restrain of any sort, what is viewed as instant
gratification - sex, drugs, junk food, New Age ideology, as well as
the various novelties so well propagated by the media, - fashion,
body-piercing, self-esteem, woman’s ‘liberation’, homosexuality,
environmentalism, and so forth, all seen as ‘cool’ and very
‘palatable’……thanks to the social planners
Finally, having painted this grey picture, I
want to say that there no hope for society to recover from the
present predicament unless it goes back and restores the foundations
of the traditional family, where man and woman will find anew their
true identity and well-being. However, this process will never be
accomplished unless we will base all our efforts and energies in our
Lord Jesus Christ and in His Holy Gospel.
For the Lord says: “If you remain in my
word, you will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth,
and the truth will set you free.” John 8:31-32
Go to part two
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