Humanity without family is unlikely to remain humaity

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...