Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“Reading Tocqueville, one can imagine a time when the organs of civil association extended to spheres of life, such as childhood and old age, which are wholly institutionalized and segregated today. The state warehouses children so that parents can work and pay taxes. The elderly are sequestered and told, more or less, that their participation in society is optional after 65. At that point, they become liabilities to be managed by the Congressional Budget Office. No doubt, a weakened civil society includes the lost array of mutual aid societies, lodges, and fraternal orders of which a third of Americans were once members.” (09/24/24)