If there’s a perfect family out there, we’re all happy for that family. But most families aren’t perfect. Most families are living with some sort of challenge or some sort of difficulty.
As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau’s acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes’s, but following the same pattern, once it became the accepted story of human origins.
Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army – a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.
