Quote by Percy Wynham Lewis

With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.


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Summary

This quote suggests that in a materialistic society where emotions are commoditized and shamelessly promoted to appeal to the masses, the traditional concept of family, already weakened by feminist and economic influences, begins to resemble the structure and values of the state. It implies that societal forces are undermining the authenticity and solidity of the family unit, leading to its transformation into a distorted reflection of larger political systems.

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Family
By Percy Wynham Lewis
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