Nuclear families in the modern society

Philosophy often leads to rational investigation of questions about its existence, knowledge and ethics. I do not mean philosophy can go beyond personal belief or the compound of doctrines. What we perceive, wish to hear or feel mostly becomes our philosophy. These type of practices need not necessarily be constituted to old school of thought. One such philosophies developed in the modern times are nuclear families.

It is not very surprising to see conjugal families paving way to nuclear families with the emergence of industrialisation and capitalism. Some adrift without direction and rest are totally aimless. Larger families have undergone substantial social reform so to speak that they no longer exist. I have seen people sighting difference in opinions and claim they require higher vetoing power in order to sustain this paradigm shift. Extended and larger families no longer exists in its true sense.

Some say that they have moved on from the traditional practices sighting pragmatism. I am somewhat convinced I have moved away from typical family traditions for the sake of convenience, luxury or lavishness. This is often sighted as sumptuousness. I quite agree to it.

As we drift into practical matters, I started questioning the very existence of tradition and rationale behind it. The fundamental reasons or logic behind these traditions are hard to explain. Just how we relate lucrativeness to sizeable profits, moneymaking and remuneration; we tend to cripple traditions due to absence of social ideas or system.

During my formative years, I hung onto a coniferous tree just because my forefathers planted it. Neither I was pragmatic nor had to courage to question by forefathers about the practice that I was asked to follow. Something does not feel quite right. As I grew older, I grew into oblivion. It is difficult to explain your compeers about your social patterns, likes and dislikes. You are often disregarded or forgotten. Albeit it means very little in this context, you still linger to find out what is happening on the other side of the divide. This curiosity often kills the cat.

Whilst we hover around, leave slowly and hesitantly; someone else is making unfavourable criticism or find faults of your shortcomings. Traditionists are sometimes stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded. Being prudent does not mean you circumspect the situation with discreet. This is precisely what happens to those who swim against the tide. Then you moan in despair and dismay. Somewhere you reach a state in which all hopes are lost or assume they are absent.

I am often confronted by traditionists, often facing hostile opposition for the same reason and I think otherwise on their practices. The most hilarious thing is when they drag science into it and fail to exhibit the relation between the two. Science examines the questions posed by scientific theories and hypotheses whereas tradition is an inherited pattern adhering to traditional views. I see no science in it unless science proves it otherwise.

You have been living here so long undisturbed, dream of the time when you were free and undisturbed and suddenly you are encompassed into these traditional practices. You no longer pick those pieces, put they away. Several nuclear families today are formed as an oppression to these traditional views and illogical relations to the practical matter. With the retrospection on how families lived, none of them went any further to question the society in which they lived. For sure, this is an ordeal of the past if not trial by fire.

These are hell's perpetual fires for the years and decades to come. I am more profoundly concerned about the changes we live in. Lot of modern day nuclear families are more dynamic, affluent and well planned. However, this does not mean they are sound in their judgements. The older generation continue to claim they are the realm of the occult but that may not be the case in all true sense. If you look at the sizeable combination of both conjugal and nuclear families, there is an element of truth on both sides. Practical living is often mistaken to being correct or appropriate. You need to ratify in order to ascertain the truth or the fact behind it. The tales are twisted to the need of the individual and thus nothing ascertains the practical examination of the fact.

We all agree as far as we can see. It is just the way of the world. Nothing comes out as surprise than blatant ignorance. The formation of nuclear families not just lies with difference in opinion or compatibility. It is far beyond driven. In some cases, they are strong and a sudden outburst. Someone who can make clear distinctions and find the subtle difference between one another will know for sure that system has failed.

In the years to come, there will be more nuclear families rising from East to West, North to South and beyond the horizons. People will be grossly blasphemous towards what is held to be sacred, religious and what is cited as traditional boundaries. This in turn becomes exodus and the new pattern may follow.

With the course of every sunrise and sunset, there arises a person questioning the rationale behind the traditions, religions and practices we followed. Life goes on!