Humanity without family is unlikely to remain humaity

The global transition to a family-less way of life and its consequences In the first quarter of the 21st century, planetary humanity underwent an enormous transformation, one that is more accurately described not merely as historical, but as anthropological, because it alters the very mode of being of the species Homo sapiens.

What is striking is not only the evolutionary scale of this transformation, but also the speed with which it occurred.

Very quickly, literally within the span of one generation, humanity shifted toward a family-less way of life.

Let us grasp the meaning of what has happened.

Human beings of our species were formed, multiplied, and spread across the planet in tightly knit kin groups that expanded into tribes while simultaneously dividing into more compact and distinct families.

Aristotle therefore did not invent, but simply described the social nature of the rational human being and called the family the first – that is, the basic and foundational – form of human association.

Incidentally, Aristotle, long before Jesus Christ, also warned of the existential threat to humanity posed by chrematistics (Ancient Greek χρηματιστική, money-making, from χρήματα, money ), or capitalism, in modern terms.

He regarded chrematistics as a perverted form of economic activity, contrary to human nature and destructive of society, including the family.

Then, some three hundred years later, Jesus Christ came and taught that worship of Mammon leads people away from God – with all the consequences that follow.

Two thousand years have passed.

Let us omit the details and focus on the essential point.

Political scientist Francis Fukuyama called the end of the 20th century the end of world history.

Only frivolous people can think Fukuyama was simply inventing things.

The state of global humanity at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries was described by sociologist Zygmunt Bauman as individualized and “liquid,” because all social institutions and concepts had lost their certainty and obligatory force.