The Family

The Family is an American shadow organization identified as a possible domestic terrorist group by the FBI, Interpol and other terrorist watch organizations. Because there is no published evidence that The Family exists it is considered by some a mythical organization, though its existence in popular culture is often promoted in online gaming/conspiracy theory groups. Official references to the The Family have been made however by the F.B.I. in case number 2242DMCA in relation to missing persons cases of Darren Greer and Tyler Riley, and suspicious person Paul Morris who is sometimes named as the head of the organization. Little is known of the organization, other than a few newspaper articles written by Morris in the 1990’s about surfer culture and post-human sodalities. Although the articles do not mention The Family by name Morris describes hypothetical outlaw societies that operate on their own moral standards and with their own internal rules outside the normative moral framework.  Societies such as The Family have similar characteristics as other cults such as those founded by David Karesh and Charles Manson, including strong identification with other members, a sense of persecution by society at large, and a philosophy of sedition and anti-establishment. The Family is considered variant from other cult groups because of its solicitation of members with high intelligence, advanced computer and coding knowledge, and the supposition that positions of authority within the organization are occupied solely by gay men. More well-known gay male gangs such as The Queer Mafia and Devil’s Gin in the U.S. denied any ties with The Family and often promote theories of its non-existence. 

In Academics

Professor Nicholas Marini at Tufts University has written several papers on the emergence of post-human sodalities in the 21st century, in which he includes conjectures about the possible existance of The Family. Dr. Marini has written that such groups consider themselves evolved beyond the usual societal organizational principles of liberal democracies. Marini writes that groups such as the Family have in principle a strong affinity with the philosophical apex conjecture of Nietzsche’s superman. In his paper “Heroic Defiance: The Family, Paul Morris and the Anti-human” Marini [1] posits that outlaw post human sodalities threaten the democratic social fabric by rejecting normative neoliberal moral and societal views, global moral consensus, definitions of law and legality, and traditional state/federal/municipal investitures of power as well as all religious authority. The Family has also been implicated in connection with the disappearance of Canadian writer Darren Greer in San Francisco California^[2] in 2010.

References

[2] HaveYouSeenMySon.com

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