MARRIAGE AND PROCREATION: Beverley Eyre

[Beverley Eyre is a research engineer with NASA specializing in micro and nano systems development, who lives in the Bay Area.]

Marriage is not, and never has been, society's way of putting its "stamp of approval" on a private relationship. Marriage is the way society *creates families*. The concept of "family" is not the label we give to a random aggregate of people who live together, but is a set of symbolic relationships that defines the most fundamental group that can exist. It provides the link between what we are (biological organisms trying to survive) with who we are (a member of groups of human beings, on all levels). All successful societies have their basis in the concept (symbol) "family," and all families are created by linking males and females in marriage.

Humans are symbolic creatures. The destruction of culture is the destruction of our symbols, which means the destruction of our relationships (familiy, mother, father, husband, wife, etc), our institutions (marriage, family), our mores, taboos, rituals, etc. These are what hold us together and these are the things that must be destroyed (as they have been in Europe) for our culture to vanish.

posted by Eve at 6:16 PM VOTE

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