Belmont Club: If Tomorrow Comes

Richard Fernandez over at Belmont Club finds that the inverted family tree of the western world is "baked into socialism from the beginning". And it reads as a fitting epitaph for marriage if it turns into nothing more than an equally protected welfare channel.

And that is precisely what the welfare state consisted of. Living for today. Social security is a perfect example. It was never a “fund”; it was never anything more than a payroll tax moving money from young workers to old workers. For it while it seemed to work, but only because the West was running on the legacy of a generation that believed in tomorrow and had sacrificed its life and youth in World War 2 to secure it. The “living for today” lifestyle resulted in the spectacular party some may remember at the end of the 20th century: an era that valued unlimited sex, unlimited welfare, and sacrifice for God and country not at all.