READ THIS BOOK: THE INSTITUTION OF THE NUCLEAR FAMILY More development of the th

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594036438/ref=tsm_1_fb_lkPLEASE READ THIS BOOK: THE INSTITUTION OF THE NUCLEAR FAMILY

More development of the thesis that the Anglo nuclear family is central to economic prosperity. (In my view, central to the development of extra-familial trust.)

I think their optimistic vision of the future is worth whatever any other silly person’s vision of the future is worth. Not much. History shows that economics and demographics determine outcomes and our economics and demographics are a serious problem. But their analysis of the nuclear family as the primary means of cultural indoctrination in the anglo model is quite good.

HISTORY OF THIS LINE OF REASONING

Charles Murray

Breaking Apart (2012) (empirical)

Emmanuel Todd:

After Empire: The Breakdown Of American Order (2006)

Explanation of Ideology: Family Structure & Social System, (1985)

The Invention of Europe (1990)

Ostwald Spengler:

The Decline of the West (1918)

LINKS

http://www.amazon.com/After-Empire-Breakdown-Perspectives-Criticism/dp/B00EBFVSOC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Todd

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_the_West

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Spengler

We split English and German civilizations in the 1800’s

We conquered them in the 1900’s.

We figured out they were right all along in the 2000’s.

Empiricism is all well and good. It just isn’t enough to build a society upon.

SEE ALSO THE GREAT HISTORIANS

Arnold J. Toynbee

Fernand Braudel

Carroll Quigley