The heart that never weighed more than the feather was, in the Egyptian tradition, the verification of the balance and harmony necessary for existence.
How heavy is the heart of the world? Where is the heart of the West?
In the observance of today’s culture, I miss that feeling of proximity to the simple life, without artifice, without scruples of spirituality, with the armor of strength and with the security and confidence of having and being a family. Maybe that’s why I miss brotherly love.
Dickens described it with certainty in those lines that spoke to us of the “cricket of the home: tranquility, domestic life, innocent and pretty.”
Too bad for the cricket that we have already heard with the weakness of men consumed by their own vital weariness.
How is it possible that with so much we are so little?
The absence of his song invites us to reflect.
If we look back, we remember the lack of materialism, the desire to prosper to be a little happier… with effort! We also yearn for love, that bright idea that lit up that heart that weighed like a feather.
These are some of our longings. The “inventors of talcum powder” dust us off with their serial spirituality, where everything is zen, where we are worth so much for ourselves that why remember others, where they offer us a “cultural bonus” with everyone’s money for young people, while offering them a sectarian education limited to moral and intellectual poverty, falsifying History (see the latest speculations of the Institut Nova Historia).
Do you remember those times?
It is necessary to see how our heroes were read to the fire of the cricket of the home; our Quixote, the epic Kings, El Cid…
A guru will quickly appear who tells us that looking at the past generates stress, in the same way that some postmodern youth questions what History is for… or a transhumanist turns us into a machine at the whim of technology.
It certainly… seems like an exaggeration. But, then, if it is not an exaggeration, why have we moved away from the fire that provides that heart of feather?
The family is that meeting place, which is not part of the material heritage that political society must manage. The family is the spiritual heritage of all in any existing time and circumstance. That is why, in its spiritual essence, that heart of feather feeds us.
No politician has the right to increase the weight of the balance with laws that lessen the true meaning of the family.
The western model of single it is based on many of the laws that favor the disintegration of the family.
The family is based on the love of life and knowledge. To the life of parents, children and thought in order to possess past, present and future.
The man who walks alone is the preferred model of the West. A materialism that induces us not to life and a lack of critical judgment, and that deprives us of our home shackle.
The terrible thing about the matter is that this social preference is not a free choice of man; It is on many occasions a political manipulation that helps us to estimate an unreal freedom…
As a sign of democratic falsehood, the Constitutional Court is asked to “avoid impunity for very serious crimes”… Imagine! Freedom…
In these summer days, on the beach, I had a conversation with a hard-working psychiatrist: «In the coming decades, the destruction of the family will fill our consultations with depressed and stressed people».
As a humanist and a man educated with history, in order not to cheat myself, I already discovered with Machiavelli that moral conscience does not exist in politics. For this reason, governments that use the qualities of the family for their political ends are poison for society, because they destroy its vital nucleus.
The lack of commitment in exchange for selfishness, hedonism in exchange for sacrifice, the false culture in exchange for truth in critical judgment, break that shackle of home.
I said before that this absence was reflexive.
To those who govern us I would ask a question…
Do you think that the current abortion legislation favors the family? Do you consider the cultural ideology adequate for the family? With their laws of all terms and demagogy, do they help the family? With wild economic liberalism, are we helping the family? Does the Spanish fertility rate strengthen the family?
Look… These laws of social engineering that are promoted disintegrate the levels of responsibility of the family nucleus, that adding that democratizes the acts without paying attention to their consequences.
But… Why do they put weight on the scale and cheat us? Why do they allow squat the private property of others? Why do they want to talk about compulsory renting and not favoring the family model? Why does the policy of increasing the birth rate of Díaz Ayuso seem bad to some?
Well, I’ll tell you… the list of whys would be so long… embarrassing!
But answering each one of them, the falsehood, the occupation, the deterioration of the family effort and the relegation of the children for the sake of competitiveness, destroy the cricket of the home owner of generosity and hope.
This is how Proverbs 4:23 writes: “Above all things, take care of your heart, because life emanates from it.”
If it were so, we would have more moral conscience and therefore we would rigorously demand it from those who govern us; listen to the cricket of the home.
- peter sources he is humanist and essayist