This article pits individual freedom/empowerment against the family unit and argues the latter is vanishing and we need it back. A familiar topic lately. I’m a

This article pits individual freedom/empowerment against the family unit and argues the latter is vanishing and we need it back. A familiar topic lately. I’m afraid this is a false dichotomy. If we’re actually trading the family unit for free self-empowered individuals, there are positive effects like decreased susceptibility to influence and belief in unlikely things. But that’s not what’s actually happening. Signs point to social cohesion being traded for an uprooted, uninformed individualism that is susceptible to targeting and influence on mass scale. I’d say what we want for social resilience is not the family unit back, but to nurture individuals as highly informed skeptics.