Family Is the First Institution
Before there were states or markets, there was the household. Every civilization is downstream of what happens, or fails to happen, in the home.
The family is the first institution and the foundation of civilization.
Repair the household and you begin, quietly, to repair everything built on it. This essay is a placeholder in the local scaffold. When PRISM is connected to Ghost, the full piece is authored and published there, and this page renders the live content automatically.
The argument in brief
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