ARTICLE: Red Family, Blue Family, By Doug Muder, February, 2005

Interesting read that slowly pulls you in. My reader's point, which I endorse: a fascinating glimpse of the Core-Gap ideological mindsets (just transpose Ault's argument globally). To choose connectivity is to choose family. To focus on given family is typically to say the change of connectivity just isn't worth the cost (travel, less attachment to land and tradition, urbanization, women's rights, secularism, etc.).

It reminds me of the old social workers' saw: Every kid grows up thinking that the world is exactly like their family.

Thanks to Bruce Hughes for sending this.