People complain that American culture is atomistic.  That the nuclear family leaves us high and dry.  It's true that American culture is messed up, and people are left high and dry.  I'd just as soon blame our corporate fascist rent-seeking phony capitalism for this.  Everything from housing to education is a machine designed to extract and give the minimum back.  It's a rent-seeking problem.  It's because we have housing codes, and central banking, and a military-industrial-academic complex.  I'll have more to say about college another day. I don't think, however, that traditional American...