Letter XXV - Destroy the home
My Dear Rottmouth, We now turn our attention to a most critical aspect of our strategy: disrupting the environment within which these little ones are raised. It is within the family unit that the Enemy's influence is often most strongly felt, and thus it is here that we must strike decisively. Our goal is to devise ways to create division and dysfunction, particularly by targeting the relationships between parents.
One of the most effective methods is to instigate and foster divorce. If we can separate mother and father, our task becomes significantly easier. A broken family provides fertile ground for resentment, confusion, and emotional turmoil—all conditions that weaken the influence of the Enemy and make the children more susceptible to our wiles.
Begin by planting seeds of discontent and dissatisfaction in the minds of both parents. Encourage them to focus on their partner’s flaws and shortcomings rather than their virtues. Promote unrealistic expectations of marriage, ideas we will have planted through the various mediums and media. Emphasize the idea that personal happiness and fulfillment should be the primary goals of their relationship. The more they believe that their partner is failing to meet their needs, the more likely they are to consider separation.
Encourage external distractions and temptations. Promote careers, hobbies, and social engagements that pull them away from spending time together as a family. Infidelity, whether emotional or physical, can be a powerful catalyst for marital breakdown. The more isolated and disconnected they feel from each other, the easier it will be to drive a wedge between them.
If divorce is not immediately achievable, focus on undermining the father’s role within the home. The Enemy’s design has placed the father as the spiritual and moral leader of the family, and by removing or weakening him, we can significantly disrupt the family dynamic. Encourage societal narratives that belittle and marginalize the role of fathers. Promote the idea that fathers are unnecessary, or even detrimental, to a child's upbringing. Once again, our feminist friends have done a great deal of work on this front for us; we must but fan the embers.
Create situations that cause the father to feel inadequate or emasculated. Job stress, financial pressures, and societal expectations can all contribute to feelings of failure and worthlessness. The more the father feels he cannot provide or protect, the more likely he is to withdraw emotionally or physically from the family.
Should the father remain in the home, target both parents with constant distractions and stressors. Encourage them to prioritize work, social status, and personal hobbies over family time. Promote a lifestyle that values busyness and productivity over meaningful interaction and presence with their children. The more exhausted and preoccupied they are, the less capable they will be of providing the emotional and spiritual guidance their children need.
Instigate conflicts and misunderstandings between parents and children. Encourage generational divides, where the children feel misunderstood and unsupported by their parents. This can be exacerbated by promoting values and lifestyles in popular culture that are in direct opposition to those the parents are trying to instill.
Utilize technology as a tool for isolation. Encourage both parents and children to spend excessive time on their devices, reducing face-to-face interaction and meaningful communication. The more they retreat into their digital worlds, the weaker their real-world connections become.
Additionally, promote the normalization of single-parent households and alternative family structures in media and society. While these can provide loving environments, they often lack the stability and balance of a two-parent home, making our task easier. These "alternative" family designs are also contrary to the Enemy's design; the more common and accepted these arrangements become, the less pressure there will be on individuals to maintain traditional family units.
In all these efforts, our goal is to create an environment where the children grow up without strong, unified parental guidance. This will make them more vulnerable to our influence as they seek identity and direction in a world of confusion and instability.
In our next correspondence, we will discuss how to target the educational systems and peer influences that shape these young minds, further ensuring they remain distanced from the Enemy’s path.
Your affectionate uncle,
Wormwood
