Dear Bunglehorn,

I saw this piece, The More ‘Wives’ the Merrier in the Chicaco Tribune and thought you might want to get it to your patient. It’s another MSM endorsement of an alternative lifestyle, this time polygamy.

The author takes the reader through her inital skeptical reaction of polygamy to a playful embrace of the sister-wife concept in her Michigan cul-de-sac. She paints a rosy picture of her neighborhood in which everyone knows each other and watches over each other’s children. The idea seems quite radical today, but just a couple generations ago, American neighborhoods closely resembled the tight-nit community she describes. One may still find such ambience and values in smaller towns across the country. Otherwise, we’ve rendered such neighborly behavior as abnormal, merely nostalgic.

Reflect for a moment how the past few decades we’ve undermined community bonds with violent crime, fear and mistrust of neighbors to bring about isolationism, largely aided by visual media. Now, as people express a desire for the good society gone by, we again use visual media to suggest a course via a twisted prism of “Big Love.”

We found ourselves confessing that plural marriage didn’t look so terrible, even in a drama filled with suffering and intrigue.

It was kind of like the Waltons, what with the big family and the red-state setting. One always had company. There was help with the children. And though the three or more women married to one man didn’t seem so great, it seemed a small point.

We’ve come so far so quickly. I wonder what your patient might think of our version of Utopia?

Warmest Regards,
Wigglebrick
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