The Consumer, The Producer, and The Homemaker (Part 2)

Let’s go a little further.  Why do you think it is that it is Suzie and not Lucy who is projected to us as the stereotypical homemaker?  Who benefits? Who is doing the great majority of the broadcasting?  That’s right, the great majority of broadcasting is controlled by people who are trying to sell you something!  Food (sweets and highly processed foods)! Toys (for you and for your children)!  And the people who want to sell you something benefit from the two income family in two ways: first, because you have more disposable income (what a horrible term!  You should never “dispose” of your income!), you have more to spend on things you don’t really need; second, because, since they have directed a lot of the advertising at your children, you aren’t there to police it, and honestly are you really going to spend the 20 minutes you spend talking to your kid each day fighting about whether or not they are getting that new toy, or would you rather just give them the toy so you can have some peace?  There are people profiting from the two income family, and it isn’t the two income family.

Who else benefits?  Since Suzie is not the primary educator of her own children, public and private schools are.  The powerful in this world benefit from a populace which is uniform and therefore easily regulated.  Those who are found to be not so easily regulated can be drugged.  Sound like science fiction or the product of a paranoid mind?  Then why are so many kids on Ritalin.  Let me give you a hint… it is not because the inability to sit at a desk for eight hours straight at six years of age is a disease. 

And one last step, if you’re still with me.  Who is it that finally benefits from all of this destruction?  Who is it, in the end, who benefits if people are “consumers”, if corporations are “persons”, if parents are “relieved” of their duty to educate their children, if the home is blasted and blighted and so many marriages end in divorce?  Who is it that benefits if children are seen as such a burden (Gaaa!  The cost of childcare!) that many of them never see light outside the womb? 

“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”  (Eph 6:12)