I am watching “A Very Brady Renovation” on HGTV and pondering why the ratings are so sky high – fifty years after Carol and Mike tied the knot. Many old Tv shows are repeated on MeTV and other oldies stations, but only a few rise to iconic status, remaining beloved throughout the decades.
What seems clear is the common denominator that separates normal reruns from special beloved shows like The Brady Bunch and Lost in Space is family. And not ‘just’ family, but pre-politically correct family; families that stayed together, ate together, worked together, and loved each other through thick and thin. Families whose father taught his children life lessens and whose mother nurtured her children more than her career. Families in which males were not portrayed as ridiculed wimps and females did not vacillate between the foolish pretense of masculine independence and immoral promiscuity.
Everyone intuits something good, something basic to humanity, about the kind of intact functional family the Brady Bunch displayed. Mike and Carol were the first Tv couple to form a combination family, and even the first to sleep in the same bed. Yet, there was no mention of divorce or “ex-spouses” in the original series, leaving us to assume the former spouses had died. Mike and Carol respected each other and none of the Brady kids felt they had to act out in psychologically unhealthy ways, such as in cohabitation, homosexuality or transgenderism. In fact, these ideas had not yet been ‘normalized’ by secular humanist progressivism and would have been foreign to the Bradys. What was missing in the series, however, were allusions to the spiritual glue that in real life holds this all together. Nonetheless, one can assume they went to Church on Sundays, even though it was never shown.
Every family this side of Eden is imperfect; yet there seems to be a secret yearning for the pre-PC family. Even groups that had been discriminated against, if you were to feed them truth serum, would probably tell you how much better off they were before the cultural Left and its Planned Parenthood mentality began to destroy the souls of Americans and the family along with it.
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The Brady kids and their fictional house represent much more than nostalgia. They represent what many hearts yearn for and what is known to have been stolen from us during this era of ‘progressive’ invasion. If only our heads – filled with foolish ideas fed to us through the media & academia since childhood – could see what our hearts intuitively know.