day no. 16,149: truth is not a registered trademark

Truth does not belong to the State. It doesn’t need its papers notarized. It does not need to conform to any Federal rules and regulations committees. It is not a commodity. It cannot be bought or sold. It cannot be taxed or tariffed. It is an authority on its own. The State needs to register with it. Truth is the standard by which the State shall be judged, not the property of the State to define or package as they see fit.

"But since I have made this criticism of the modern view of the family more than once before, both in connection with the modern view of marriage and the modern view of education, I will try once more to explain to my critics and correspondents what I mean; and since I cannot be subtle, I will try to be simple. There are two human relations which modern rulers are everywhere disposed to dissolve.... that of man and wife or mother and child. A man can desire a woman as thing of beauty, or woman can desire a baby as thing of beauty. These two relations are the only two recognised combinations founded on natural satisfaction with the thing itself. They are also the only two recognised combinations in capitalist civilisation which that system has set out to destroy... Divorce and the destruction of parental control therefore are the two main modern reforms, because they both express distrust of the two natural emotions that can in some reasonable degree be trusted." -- G.K. Chesterton, Is The Parent A Paradox, 1921

The love of a man for a woman manifested in marriage is a threat to a State with no sense of self-control. The love of a parent for their child exhibited in education is another threat. The Christian family is founded on both of these, and as such, is the greatest threat an out-of-control State will ever face. This is why so much of their time, energy, and economic resources are aimed at dissipating its sway.

The State goes to great lengths to annex marital and parental responsibilities. It seeks to provide and protect those for whom husbands and fathers are responsible by first supplementing what they seek to ultimately supplant. In other words, they come along side in order to box out. Practically speaking, this leads to things like no-fault divorce laws and less stigmatization of those who pursue them for any and every reason. It also takes the form of government schooling becoming cheesier and more mandatory; and the more mandatory, the more layers of cheese that are added.

The State cannot compete with a responsible husband. The State cannot endure a happy homemaker. Free men and women make for free thinking citizens who raise free range Christian children, fed on the grace of God and the freedom of His Spirit. So, the State seeks to supplant the existing men through *Baalfare and to hamstring the rearing of future men through *Feducation. 

Truth is not a registered trademark.

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Baalfare: a system of distribution predicated upon the notion that the State not only has the authority to dispense the rain, but the ability to produce it.

Feducation: a system of indoctrination predicated upon the notion that the State not only owns the trademark on truth, but also the means of production and distribution.