Consider the nature of the society we live in that allowed this to happen. The family unit is a microcosm of the faults in the bigger picture. On the macro-scale the parent is The Establishment, and the child is the wildcard—the unnamed individuals who are born everyday.
Society became a train on which everyone was a passenger, one that grinds on and on, driverless, dragging everything into cataclysmic collisions, oscillations of destruction and creation as new ideas arose to replace the old, regrettably only when the old had collapsed upon its followers. Systems that society creates are as sandcastles on shores seething with surf, shattered with every wave. Systems have failed so far because they resist nature.
Systematic is a deadly word. Systems take on a monstrous life of their own outside that of their creators.
Systems autocannibalise, feeding on those it feeds. It reduces the individual to an expendable unit. A child born is consumed to feed itself. Herein lies the paradox. The individual is forced to take on the ambiguous role of both the consumer and the consumed. This duality is governed only by martyrdom and submission to the greater good. In systems, all are fodder for an empty cause.


Read more on this series in my journal entry under the same name.