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By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture, May 13, 2022
As societies “evolve”, especially if population is increasing, they tend to become more complex. This typically means that individual families and even particular communities become less self-sufficient, more interdependent. The result is a rising desire for effective behavioral controls in more and more areas of life. This in turn leads to the steady expansion of regulatory government and the bureaucracy that accompanies it. We have experienced the acceleration of this trend throughout the West over the past century, so that today even our most personal relationships are filtered through an expanding maze of bureaucracies, as is amply demonstrated by the State’s control of marriage and divorce, so-called civil unions, and the education of children. …
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Jeffrey Mirus holds a Ph.D. in intellectual history from Princeton University. A co-founder of Christendom College, he also pioneered Catholic Internet services. He is the founder of Trinity Communications and CatholicCulture.org.