I am typing the Dallas article word for word to send to some of my friends and my four kids. Three of my children are married with children; the fourth is 19, in school, and working part time for Starbucks. Not a “good” school as the author seems so keen on here in the City Journal article, but he can transfer we are hoping. His parents have been married before his birth and are still happily married. Both of us have college degrees and successful careers but our son is not as motived it seems. The vote is still out for him so I am not too worried yet.

This article in the City Journal is slanted in a vein that would not share well with a bunch of people to be sure. The Dallas one is far more reaching so I will continue my typing. Later.

No. Recent Y-chromosome DNA studies on the likelihood that individuals with the same surnames have the same Y-chromosome today (which is passed down , like surnames, in the direct male line of descent), show a very high rate of average legitimacy over the last seven hundred years. For example, Oxford geneticist Bryan Sykes’ study of men named “Sykes” equated to a 99% rate of legitimacy per generation since the first man chose the name Sykes around 1300.

-that maybe creative destruction is just as vital to the social sphere as it is to the economic sphere. Forms are broken down, new forms arise, nothing ever stays the same. As a poster commented a few days ago, the tie between sexual exclusivity and marriage is a relatively new one in the western world (outside of the Jewish faith, anyway). So is the nuclear family (most prior households were extended families). As is the concept of “working outside the home” (in pre-industrial socities, most workers worked in fields adjacent to their dwellings or in workshops that shared space with living quarters).

Forms come and go, rise and fall, die off and are reborn. In a century or two, who knows? Maybe marriage as we know it won’t exist. Maybe sexuality will have morphed into something incomprehensible to contemporary human beings. Maybe we’ll all live in VR vats, or have been transformed into Moravecian Bush Robots (no relation to the current commander-in-chief). Or maybe a nuclear showdown with China will have wiped everyone out.

Traditional Values = The values held by perfect people in a fantasy world that supposedly existed X years before current time, where variable X is dependent upon the value system chosen by person utilizing the term-

Raver- X = 7
Hippie- X = 39
Typical American Conservative- X = 50
British Tory- X = 120
Klansman- X = 150
American Reactionary “Libertarian”- X = 230
Catholic Conservative- X = 600
Radical Muslim- X = 1350
Italian Fascist- X = 2000
Neoconfucian- X = 2200
Neoconservative- X = 2500
Radical Zionist- X = 2900
Hindu “Fundamentalist”- X = 3500
Egyptial Reconstructionist- X = 4200
Ramtha- X = 33000
Scientologist- X = 75000000
Matter Fundamentalist- X = 12.6 billion

(Note- this post was only half serious, for the humor impaired.)