WHEN FAMILY IS DISINTEGRATEDPaul Yang

I raise chickens in my backyard.

In cold winter days like now, they huddle and tango together to keep themselves warm.

Individualism is a luxury chickens couldn’t afford.

They rely on each other for survival,

just like early human beings.

Sometimes I wonder:

Are modern people really superior to chickens?

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Why they formulated so many theories like -

individualism

feminism

homosexualism

marriage equality

to justify behaviors that are not to the best interests of the mankind as a whole?

Why they are so obsessed with self-interests and personal rights, but are apathetic to other people?

Why they mistreat, exploit, take advantage of, rob, abuse, torture and slaughter their own kind?

Why they greedily accumulate wealth far exceeding their needs at the expense of their fellow human beings?

Why little by little they abandoned all the values that held them together and made them strong as a species?

I realize that, as history has shown -

Evil sometimes prevailed over good,

and people lost conscience allowed themselves to go with the flow.

Perhaps we come across such a time again.

I am not willing to give up hope, though, as we still see goodness in people like

firefighters

doctors without borders

and tango dancers alike…

I appreciate them because it takes a big heart to open your arms to others,

to provide a supporting shoulder for those in need,

and to be a good Samaritan.

Tango is created by such people - immigrants and street women who are homeless, vulnerable, lonely, looking for a refuge in a strange land, yearning to be loved, and who are sympathetic to others like themselves.

Like chickens, they huddle and tango together to keep themselves warm in a cold world.

I also see hope in parents who love their children and teach them to love each other,

to take care of their little brothers and sisters,

and to work as a team.

When such children grow up,

they will become responsible members of the society.

Evil prevails only

when family is disintegrated,

when family values are lost,

when human bonds are faded away,

when everyone becomes egocentric,

And…

when individualism, feminism, hatred, divorce, single parent family, irresponsible sex, self-indulgence, gun culture and materialism become the accepted norms in a society.

But I don’t think that will be the case forever, as history has also shown -

As long as there are men and women,

there will be love, family, children, and family values.

So evil cannot prevail for very long.

Family is and will always be the cornerstone of human civilization.

Our collective desire to survive and our collective conscience reject what is bad for us as a species.

After all, we a part of nature.

And the law of nature overrules the law of men.

Perhaps that’s why in times like this more and more people turn to tango now, a dance that connects us, a dance that is consistent with family values, a dance that teaches the world to love, and a dance in which many rediscovered conscience and compassion.

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