I recently did some traveling and visited two different cousins' families.
In one family, one had a messy, cluttered house with really expensive computers ($1000+ nVidia GPUs), poorly maintained yard with grass that was mostly gone from their big dogs tearing it up, and grown up into the fence where it was still alive. He's mostly apolitical but basically a "default leftist" through cultural influence. His girlfriend became a theyfriend a couple years ago. Not bad looking, but she has more shit in her face now than she used to. His sister (also my cousin) used to be model-esque in her 20s. Now she is about 150lbs overweight, covered in stupid tattoos, and has a side-shave and short dyed blonde hair. Multiple BLM posters in the windows and an "I stand with Planned Parenthood" sign. Has a husband who is also overweight though he has lost some because he quit drinking, and a daughter that is like 10 years old and shaped roughly like Mr. Potato Head. I could go on about their friends (I think only one was on hormones) but for the sake of brevity I'll just say that more ass whoopings would probably be good for society.
The other family: devout Christian. Gorgeous wife of 28 years (they married at 19). Beautiful lawn. Great house, which he had done many renovation projects on himself. 3 kids, all healthy, energetic, and engaged. Talked with him about movies and he says he rips them and edits the questionable ones for content and language before showing to the kids, and pretty much doesn't show them anything made after 2000 -- though he did let them watch an edited Top Gun: Maverick.
It couldn't have been a more stark difference that perfectly exemplified the two competing philosophies.
I'd go more like a Norman Rockwell painting vs. a kindergartener's drawing hanging on the refrigerator, except that the drawing was done by a committee of adults who think the result is on par with Monet.
I recently did some traveling and visited two different cousins' families.
In one family, one had a messy, cluttered house with really expensive computers ($1000+ nVidia GPUs), poorly maintained yard with grass that was mostly gone from their big dogs tearing it up, and grown up into the fence where it was still alive. He's mostly apolitical but basically a "default leftist" through cultural influence. His girlfriend became a theyfriend a couple years ago. Not bad looking, but she has more shit in her face now than she used to. His sister (also my cousin) used to be model-esque in her 20s. Now she is about 150lbs overweight, covered in stupid tattoos, and has a side-shave and short dyed blonde hair. Multiple BLM posters in the windows and an "I stand with Planned Parenthood" sign. Has a husband who is also overweight though he has lost some because he quit drinking, and a daughter that is like 10 years old and shaped roughly like Mr. Potato Head. I could go on about their friends (I think only one was on hormones) but for the sake of brevity I'll just say that more ass whoopings would probably be good for society.
The other family: devout Christian. Gorgeous wife of 28 years (they married at 19). Beautiful lawn. Great house, which he had done many renovation projects on himself. 3 kids, all healthy, energetic, and engaged. Talked with him about movies and he says he rips them and edits the questionable ones for content and language before showing to the kids, and pretty much doesn't show them anything made after 2000 -- though he did let them watch an edited Top Gun: Maverick.
It couldn't have been a more stark difference that perfectly exemplified the two competing philosophies.
I'd go more like a Norman Rockwell painting vs. a kindergartener's drawing hanging on the refrigerator, except that the drawing was done by a committee of adults who think the result is on par with Monet.