"A culture will go by the boards if its basic building
block, the family, is removed as a valid building block. But
this is no reason we should get mawked-up and silly about what
the relationship is. The relationship, basically, is a
postulated relationship. There is no truth in the
relationship. It is a postulated relationship.
"And when people stop postulating it, it ceases to exist!
And that's what happens to most marriages. People stop mocking
up the family unit, and the moment they stop mocking it up, it
isn't. You see what happens to marriages?
"It isn't the other way around: It isn't that all men are
evil, so therefore, contracts such as marriage dissolve
usually in infidelity and go all to pieces. That is not true.
The reverse it true: that when you have a purely postulated
relationship which has no real existence in fact, you have to
continue to create it. And a family unit which doesn't
continue to create itself as a family will cease to exist as a
family. That's about all you need to know about it."
— L. Ron Hubbard State of Man Congress |