08.13.06
Why secular nation states disagree with polygamy
I just read Jared Diamond’s Guns Germs and Steel. In it is a wonderful discussion of human groups from tribes to chieftains to townships to religions to nation states. Then I got to wondering about why polygamy is persecuted and disallowed by secular nation states.
The nation state you see is the successor of a religious state. Religion is now subordinate to the state. The state’s laws is the religion. The state is a beehive of activity run by people for the survival and strengthening of the nations state and the powers-that-be (today’s bankers and corporations) that benefit from the state.
Secular nation states will always move to quash any rebellion, any threat to its strength or existence. A secular nation state wants the people to serve the state first. This is why education and business inevitably pay no mind to the strengthening of families. Broken families make it easier for a state to brainwash young minds to serve the state. The state tries to substitute itself for the family system.
Today, the secular state has re-defined family to those of not even blood relations, those of homosexuals, and the “traditional family” remains the mother-father-children model. What the state does not want to recognize is father-mother(s)-children. Secular states do so prohibit polygamy on a regular basis enough that there must be a reason secular states abhor polygamy.
Polygamy or a true marriage based family system is such a strong system it is the main building block of tribes. A man with multiple wives and a good number of children creates an autonomy for itself which rivals the state and makes its functions redundant. It is no surprise that polygamous groups will grow into having its own communes, its own towns, and this makes the secular state and it zombie citizens uncomfortable.
Let me explain the polygamous family with the visible example of HBO’s Big Love comedy drama. A polygamous family needs no outside household help or nannies. There are enough mothers to care for the young and educate them according to their family values. The polygamous family and their extended families can be large enough to support themselves in their own compound. This is unacceptable from the point of view of a secular state. That is like having a state within a state. States consume and amalgamate other states, townships and tribes. No one else should rival the power of the secular state.
Legalizing polygamy = promoting solid marriage based families, families which are tied by blood. Blood ties create tribes. Blood related tribes can create their own compounds. This is why secular nation states for many centuries have always insisted on the weak and unnatural forced monogamy only arrangements blessed by the state. The secular state does not care that forcing a one wife only at one time policy is biologically unreasonable and impossible, the secular state only cares about its unrivaled power and existence.
Examples abound with the Greek Empire of old, the old Roman Empire, today’s secular states. Only the religious Islamic states allow for polygamy, but enforcing limits and many hurdles. The stronger a state wants to become, the less power it wants at the hands of the families.
Now the Islamic states which allow polygamy are threatened by the secular empires which have grown more powerful. All over the world Islamic states are invaded and regime changed, taken over by the secular empires. This is the evolution of world. This is what the western imperial powers did to Turkey with the fall of the Ottoman empire after world war I; polygamy was made illegal. Secular Turkey’s cities with monogamy is now as sexually liberal as any western city. There is no difference between Christianity and Islam when both are forced to be monogamous.
As I have said before, it is the complete legalization of polygamy that will save the people of the world from the tyranny of the secular states that will ultimately self destruct. There is a way out of this cycle. Let us not wait for secular societies to self destruct. Move to legalize polygamy now.
