Mar 1, 2021
Solving our societal problems by understanding the root cause
An opinion from the Internet on Humanity’s societal changes:
Family and Civilization
Book by Carle C. Zimmerman
Family and Civilization is the magnum opus of Carle Zimmerman, a distinguished sociologist who taught for many years at Harvard University.
He repeated what many have said:
Zimmerman traces the evolution of family structure from tribes and clans to extended and large nuclear families to the small nuclear families and broken families of today. And he shows the consequences of each structure for the bearing and rearing of children; for religion, law, and everyday life; and for the fate of civilization itself.
Originally published in 1947, this compelling analysis predicted many of today’s cultural and social controversies and trends, including youth violence and depression, abortion and homosexuality, the demographic collapse of Europe and of the West more generally, and the displacement of peoples.
Thank you for the source material!
I think many people can very precisely describe human history, the changes in society, how our original, intimate connection, societal structure gradually fell apart due to the constantly growing, intensifying ego.
We all see that the direction we are going is wrong, and we are seemingly inevitably progressing towards self-destruction as we can’t connect, maintain mutually responsible, complementing human connections while the world is becoming increasingly integrated, interdependent.
The problem still is the recognition of the root cause — our own inherent nature — and the willingness to change ourselves. And without changing ourselves, fine tuning, adapting ourselves to Nature’s increasingly integrated evolutionary direction we have no right to survive.
