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| Society - Random Passengers on a Bus Those we work with, go to school with, or find in church become those we have interaction with. This is not the same as family because these people navigate the social milieu by preference. Thus those with the most “likes” on their social media are those who are pleasing to others. A failure to please others condemns one to social ostracization. In contrast, a family was supposed to offer unconditional love and acceptance. For many families today, even this is missing.  Most people keep such a hectic schedule that the few minutes they can spare to interface with a “friend” is often jealously guarded such that if a “friend” does not produce sufficient pleasure to warrant the time, he is dropped. The movie “About a Boy” attempted to present the idea that any group of caring people could form a de-facto “family”. Many cling to this fallacy in order to convince themselves that the right social connections will fill the void left from having attenuated family connections. Sadly, the shallowness of society is not the same as the depth of family. The Milgram experiments were conducted in an attempt to discover why people in Nazi Germany would go along with their atrocities. It was observed that 85% of people would apply increasing electric shocks even leading to death when told to by an authority figure. It would have been interesting what the percentage would have been if the person being tested thought it was a family member being tortured. That one would be 85% likely to kill a stranger because someone told them to is disturbing enough. It was unclear to what extent public education contributed to generating the compliant characteristics of the subjects tested. There is that in each person that responds to and even cries out for that which was provided in family. Society and even many families today fail to meet these needs. This can lead to the consumption of deadening agents such as alcohol and drugs or attention focusing activities such as video games or entertainment consumption. Harry Harlow conducted experiments with monkeys that showed the replacement of an actual mother with a wire substitute resulted in very neurotic monkeys. In a way, this might be seen as similar to the replacement of families with society. Satan needs to have people disconnected from God and families. It may be that his ultimate purpose is to get people connected to himself when he tries to rule the world. |
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