“The bride and bridegroom must set their minds to produce for the State children of the greatest possible goodness and beauty.”~ Plato, “The Republic” (c. 360 B.C.
The introduction
to “The Faber Book of Utopias,” edited by John Carey, chronicles the methods of
creating ideal citizens, which historically have been repeatedly promoted by
utopian philosophers via the deconstruction or abolition of the family.
Originally proposed by Plato in his magnum opus, “The Republic,” this simple
yet dramatic blueprint has influenced a number of social philosophers as
diverse as More, Hobbes, Voltaire, Rousseau, to Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber,
Freud, B.F. Skinner, to socialist, liberal, progressive thinkers and
politicians in modern times. Plato promoted the belief that the family should
be completely deconstructed and its component parts used as tools of an
omnipotent, leviathan state. This means that children will be taken from
parents practically from birth, preventing the parent/child bonding. Children
will be raised exclusively by state bureaucrats; the unfit, mentally feeble,
undesirables like their fellow Greeks (Spartans) and in modern times under
Hitler and the Nazis, summarily aborted…..To Read More…..
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