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"The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and The State" by Friedrich Engels (Pt. 3)

Red Menace

CHAPTER

The Decline of the Family

In society, at large, zooming out from the family, rich people more and more are buying themselves out of all public spheres of our society. And this also gives rise to the delusion in many of their heads that they're going to be able to live high on the hog, as it were, and watch society collapse all around them. The rest of society, as it collapses and deteriorates, looks more and more scary, which exacerbates this rush to extract yourself from it. So we're staring down the barrel of a very real situation over the next couple of decades where new Godlike technology to determine your child's everything from their height to their athletic prowess to their IQ points can

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