The Concept of a Family

What is the concept of a family?

We are told it is based on love—a false ideological concept propped up by another false ideological concept called marriage. Together, these two allow you—through a piece of paper—to control each other’s lives, bodies, and choices indefinitely.

But you cannot have love or marriage—or even identity—without first answering the fundamental questions society imposes:

• Who are you?
• Where are you from?
• What’s your date of birth?
• Can I have a picture?
• Are you following orders?

These questions are asked again and again—embedded into products, ideologies, and ways of being—taught in schools like a gaggle of fish being chased by geese.

At some point in early childhood, your parents (or, as I put it, pa-renters) take you to a building and sell you to the state, answering these questions on your behalf. From that moment forward, you learn to repeat them over and over until your life revolves around this identity framework. Maybe, if you’re lucky, you’ll be allowed to talk about the weather.

The Illusion of Independence

We are told that nothing is more important than family.
"Big Johnny carries those vegetables every day. Every day, for Granny. Why does he do it?"
"Out of RESPECT—Respect for the family, bru."

When you are finally let out of prison (school), you are expected to stand on your own two feet. If you don’t prove capable, you may end up back in the system. The people who carried your burdens before will give you space—but now, society expects you to carry your own.

Legally, every person in Britain is supposed to be entitled to a home. Yet you won’t get one without a job—a job that often contributes nothing useful, forcing you to stare at a screen all day long. It’s fine—you’ve been starved of screen time in school for your safety. So now, digital life becomes crack.

And that home? That gas prison?
You are surrounded by concrete—sucking up the damp—while real materials like marble, Roman concrete, and oak have been buried with the dead. They will be dug up and sold back to your future ancestors, but for now, you have your damp-ridden, flammable-box existence.

Even so, you’ll receive a piece of paper every year assuring you that it’s “safe” enough—that it will only burn you alive, not your neighbors.

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Poetic Interlude

"Breathe into the atmosphere and it comes back down as rain.
It goes down your drainpipe and comes back up again.
Seeps through your brickwork, and there's damp for you to see.
But with a chip and a chunk of metal, you can suck it back for free.

Pop it into a little bag and into the freezer.
Now you've recrystallized your drinking breath like a clever geezer.
But if you're a lovely lady, and not a dirty geezer,
Cut yourself a hole in a stall and steam your yonny with a steamer.

It's the perfect way to clean yourself, like a pussy with its tongue.
It's the perfect way to recycle your breath and clean the hole next to your bum."

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The Cycle of Consumption

Society has taught mankind to chop down the Holy-Wood—replace trees with concrete, forcing people into a continuous maintenance loop of survival.

We build fences around our gas prisons, plant trees in our gardens to save trees, and drive chips of metal instead of walking. We inhale instant steam from vapes, never questioning why a tiny computer can do that.

We follow orders—watch the screens, obey the algorithms, act the part.
At some point, we are expected to create a family of our own, ensuring that the illusion persists across generations.

The Final Illusion

"Wessex Water—for you, for life."
"My whole life?"
"Oh yes, your whole life."

Everything you consume is repackaged and sold back to you—water, food, security, identity. If you ration your showers, maybe you’ll “save £150,” even though the water was yours to begin with.

"If you were a really clever family of four, you could each take five minutes off your shower a day and save £750. You could put £500 into an ISA—"
But in reality, you’re being robbed blind while the system pats you on the back.

The concept of a family is an illusion, passed down through generations to distract you from reality. You can choose who your family is, engage in the ideology however you want, and shape your existence freely—but doing it alone is painful, isolating.

At some point, you must create the friends, the family, the people who make you feel connected, mirrored, and valued. Otherwise, there is no point at all.

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References & Further Reading:

1. Michel Foucault – Discipline and Punish (Explores institutions as forms of control, including schools and prisons.)
2. Peter Berger & Thomas Luckmann – The Social Construction of Reality (Analyzes how society shapes identity and perception.)
3. Christopher Lasch – The Culture of Narcissism (Critiques consumerism and individualism within modern family structures.)
4. Noam Chomsky – Manufacturing Consent (Unpacks media manipulation and ideological control over populations.)