Just bought "Coming Apart" from Charles Murray after seeing a review of it in the NY time,
The Author, Charles Murray is a no non sens conservative offering some pretty interesting insight about the states of the white middle class in the US.
It's interesting to me because the observations he has made can be applied to the rest of the Western World\; mainly that a white middle class is falling apart and that the principal cause of it are the crumbling of traditional values on which it used to rely upon.
One of the most interesting one are his definition of happiness; essentially that happiness is built on 4 institutions: Family, Community, Vocation, Religion.
And that's, if you dig into that, a very interesting point to develop when it comes to the faring of today's western democracies.
Those four pillars allows one individual to determine his life as he sees fit, and therefore requires a representative government to ensure that those liberties are well preserved.
If you think about it, all for pillars, at the most basic level, pushes an individual to self determination, and therefore can only exist in an relatively open society.
Comparatively, and from my own personal experience communist regimes cannot co-exist with those values, as they undermine its authority. Authority that derives for the need to central planning, which in turn ecxert a profond influence on individuals life.
The Author, Charles Murray is a no non sens conservative offering some pretty interesting insight about the states of the white middle class in the US.
It's interesting to me because the observations he has made can be applied to the rest of the Western World\; mainly that a white middle class is falling apart and that the principal cause of it are the crumbling of traditional values on which it used to rely upon.
One of the most interesting one are his definition of happiness; essentially that happiness is built on 4 institutions: Family, Community, Vocation, Religion.
And that's, if you dig into that, a very interesting point to develop when it comes to the faring of today's western democracies.
Those four pillars allows one individual to determine his life as he sees fit, and therefore requires a representative government to ensure that those liberties are well preserved.
If you think about it, all for pillars, at the most basic level, pushes an individual to self determination, and therefore can only exist in an relatively open society.
Comparatively, and from my own personal experience communist regimes cannot co-exist with those values, as they undermine its authority. Authority that derives for the need to central planning, which in turn ecxert a profond influence on individuals life.
