"It's as if everybody'd made this tacit agreement to live in a state of total self-deception. The hell with reality! Let's have a whole bunch of cute little winding roads and cute little houses painted white and pink and baby blue; let's all be good consumers and have a lot of Togetherness and bring our children up in a bath of sentimentality- Daddy's a great man becasue he makes a living, Mummy's a great woman because she's stuck by Daddy all these years-- and if old reality ever does pop out and say Boo we'll all get busy and pretend it never happened"
The above quote was written in the 1960's, but it is amazing how it rings true today. The art of denial and acting as if everything is perfect to make ourselves feel better. It brings to mind the song "Stand by your Man". Why, I have to ask.
The man is the bread winner and the woman stands by her man, through hard times and good times. Where is the importance of a single person's life, with a thought in their head and a question on their lips. Everyone touts the importance of family, and all want to be politically correct, while behind closed doors it never is that picture perfect family life and no one is politically correct when not in front of an audience.
