I am very concerned at our current state: the people now holding power keep describing society as broken; a notion that, when you think about it, reveals some very dark attitudes, how can society be broken? If something is broken, it means that it is not in it’s original state: hence, a toy can be broken, a light-bulb can be broken, a cup can be broken and so on. But society is something organic; it evolves constantly. New trends come and go, people take up new attitudes, and so on. Society has no original state, and therefore cannot be broken.

The only way you can say society is broken is if you take a rigid view of what society should be. That is to say if you subscribe to a set of values against which society can be judged. Any such set of values will be both narrow and artificial. The Tories cling to just such a set of values, derived mostly from the JudaeoChristian tradition. Hence, for instance, they see marriage as superior to other kinds of relationship, despite the fact that that many people prefer other kinds of relationship. But, to the Tory, this doesn’t mean that marriage is an outdated institution, but that society is wrong and needs fixing. Thus the Tories intend to impose their views upon us all, making sure we conform to their values, trying to suppress anything that does not fit their schema. Some may think I am exaggerating or being reactionary, but CaMoron’s words are quite plain, and I’ve only taken them to their logical conclusion. This talk of broken societies reveals much about the true attitudes of the Tory party.