LIVING ALONE.... THE MODERN TREND !!

THE  INTRODUCTION  TO  A  CANADIAN  DOCUMENTARY  -  DOC  ZONE

FLYING  SOLO

Single living was once considered a shameful, social aberration.  Not anymore.

Today major trends like communication technology, urbanization, gender equality and increased longevity are radically reshaping that reality. The vast number of adults living alone is something entirely new in the human experience. 

Listen to an interview with director, Scott Harper onThe Current.

Throughout history and in all cultures, the family unit has been the building block of society.  Whether huddled in igloos, mud huts, Victorian row houses or public tower blocks, humans, the most social of animals, have always lived life under a shared roof.  Food, safety, health and reproduction all depended on it. Exile was the severest form of punishment, surpassed only by execution. 

Today, however, we have entered the era of an unprecedented social experiment in which more people are choosing to live alone than ever before. The number of adults living alone has tripled in half a century. In North America, more than fifty per cent of us are single. Nearly a third of all households have just one resident.  Single people now outnumber married people. 

Why is it happening? What does it matter?

Through profiles of exuberantly single adults; a short history of the nuclear family and its gradual erosion; and a look at the role of women, technology and urbanization in the sea change toward singledom, Flying Solo thoughtfully and provocatively reveals what’s fuelling the trend and what it means for our future.

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SO  IT  IS  THE  MODERN  STATS  TODAY  IN  THE  WEST,  OR  AT  LEAST  IN  CANADA,  AND  MAYBE  THE  USA.

THERE  ARE  MORE  PEOPLE  FLYING  IT  SOLO,  LIVING  ALONE,  THAN  EVER  BEFORE,  IN  FACT  MORE  LIVING  IT  ALONE  THAN  MARRIED  WITH  CHILDREN.

IT'S  A  REVOLUTION  SO  THEY  ARE  SAYING.  BUT  AGAIN  WE  IN  THE  WEST  HAVE  REVOLUTIONIZED  MANY  THINGS  IN  THE  LAST  50  OR  60  YEARS.  ONE  SAD  REVOLUTION  IS  HAVING  SEX  WITH  WHOM  YOU  FEEL  LIKE,  WHEN  YOU  FEEL  LIKE;  YES  WE'VE  KNOWN  OF  THE  SEXUAL  REVOLUTION  FOR  DECADES.  JUST  BECAUSE  IT'S  A  FACT,  AND  DONE,  IT  SEEMS  WITHOUT  A  SECOND  THOUGHT;  JUST  BECAUSE  SEX  BEFORE  MARRIAGE  IS  A  NORM  OF  MODERN  LIFE  TODAY,  DOES  NOT  MAKE  IT  RIGHT  OR  GOOD.  

WE  TODAY  DO  MANY  THINGS  THAT  WERE  NOT  DONE  50  AND  60  YEARS  AGO,  WHEN  OUR  NATIONS  FOLLOWED  THE  BIBLE  MORE;  OUR  NATIONS  WERE  AT  ONE  TIME  FOUNDED  UPON  THE  WORD  OF  GOD  TO  A  PRETTY  LARGE  EXTENT;  SUCH  IS  NOT  THE  CASE  TODAY.  SO  WITH  OPEN  SEX,  A  MORE  COMPLICATED  WORLD,  A  MORE  "WORK  AND  CAREER"  LADIES  WORLD  THAN  EVER  BEFORE;  IT'S  NOT  SURPRISING  THEN  THAT  MORE  PEOPLE  ARE  MARRYING  LATER  IN  LIFE,  HAVING  CHILDREN  LATER  IN  LIFE,  AND  EVEN  JUST  FLYING  IT  ALONE..... GOING  IT  ALONE.

IT'S  ONE  MORE  STEP  AWAY  FROM  HOW  THE  ETERNAL  GOD  CREATED  IT  TO  BE;  FOR  WHEN  HE  CREATED  MAN,  HE  LOOKED  AND  SAID,  "IT  IS  NOT  GOOD  THAT  MAN  SHOULD  BE  ALONE."  IT'S  IN  THE  FIRST  CHAPTERS  OF  GENESIS.

NOW  BEING  ALONE  IS  NOT  SIN  PER  SE.  SOMETIMES  BEING  ALONE  MAY  BE  NECESSARY  FOR  SOME.  THE  APOSTLE  PAUL,  FROM  WHAT  WE  CAN  SEE  FROM  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT  WAS  ALONE,  IN  THE  SENSE  OF  NOT  MARRIED.  BUT  WE  ALSO  SEE  MANY  IF  NOT  MOST  OF  THE  OTHER  APOSTLES  WERE  MARRIED.  NOW  PAUL  WAS  NOT  ALONE  IN  OTHER  WAYS,  HE  HAD  FRIENDS  IN  THE  FAITH,  BRETHREN  HE  WORKED  WITH  IN  THE  GOSPEL  MINISTRY.  SO  THERE  CAN  BE  EXCEPTIONS  TO  THE  OVERALL  OF  GOD'S  OVERALL  DESIRE  AND  PLAN  THAT  MAN  SHOULD  NOT  BE  ALONE  IN  THE  SENSE  GOD  MEANS  WHEN  "IT  IS  NOT  GOOD  FOR  A  MAN  TO  BE  ALONE."

I  HAVE  BEEN  "ALONE"  IN  GOD'S  SENSE  FOR  17  YEARS  NOW.  BUT  THEN  I'M  NOT  ALONE  IN  MANY  OTHER  SENSES  OF  "ALONE."  IN  LATER  AGE  I  FOUND  MYSELF  ALONE  IN  LIVING,  BUT  NOT  ALONE  IN  OTHER  PARTS  OF  MY  LIFE.  LIKE  THE  APOSTLE  PAUL  I  AM  SOMEWHAT  CONSUMED  WITH  THE  GOSPEL  WORK.  READING,  STUDYING,  WRITING,  UPLOADING  TO  MY  WEBSITE,  BY  THE  HOURS.  THEN  GOD  HAS  MADE  SURE  I'M  NOT  ALONE  IN  OTHER  PARTS  OF  MY  LIFE  -  I  HAVE  NEVER  THOUGHT  OF  RETIRING  FROM  SECULAR  WORK  IN  ANY  FULL  WAY;  SO  I  HAVE  PART  TIME  WORK  STILL  TEACHING  MUSIC,  AND  WORKING  AS  CARETAKER  FOR  A  COMMUNITY  CENTER.  THEN  GOD  BLESSED  ME  10  YEARS  AGO  COME  NEXT  SPRING,  BY  GIVING  ME  THE  HORSE  OF  MY  BOYHOOD  DREAMS.....A  BEAUTIFUL  AND  TALENTED  GOLDEN  PALOMINO  MARE,  THE  DARK  GOLD  COLOR  WITH  SUPER  CONFORMATION [HER  GRAND-DAD  WAS  "I'M  IMPRESSIVE"  - THE  USA  HALTER  CHAMPION],  HENCE  MY  TIME  WITH  HER  AND  WITH  OTHERS  IN  THE  HORSE  WORLD.

BUT  THE  SECULAR  MODERN  TREND  OF  "GOING  IT  ALONE"  IS  NOT  WHAT  GOD  WANTS  IN  THE  LARGE  SCHEME  OF  LIFE.

BUT  IT  IS  ONE  MORE  TREND  OF  DEPARTING  FROM  OUR  NATIONS  THROWING  OUT  THE  BIBLE.  SUCH  A  LARGE  TREND  THAT  CBC  CANADA'S  DOC  ZONE  THOUGHT  THEY  NEEDED  TO  DO  A  FULL  DOCUMENTARY  ON  THE  ALARMING  FACTS  OF  TODAY'S  WESTERN  WORLD.

IT  IS  THE  MODERN  TREND  TO  NOW  AS  NEVER  BEFORE  "GOING  IT  ALONE"  -  A  TREND  THAT  WILL  PROBABLY  NOT  BE  REVERSED  UNTIL  THE  AGE  TO  COME  HAS  COME.

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