CHAPTER 7

Marriage Is a Corporation

TED Talks are sometimes funny, often provocative, and usually entertaining. One day, when I was thinking about marriage, TED.com seemed a natural place to look. I was feeling for a pulse away from academics on the one hand, social media distortion on the other, and divorce pundits in between.

Nothing. Well, almost nothing. Marriage is not a topic for over 2,600 TED listings. A search of the site reveals pages of titles not associated with the concept as search engines are prone to do when they cannot find anything.

Marriage is one of the most important social and cultural institutions on the planet. Tribes of all sorts go to war over it. Religious schisms develop. Annualized marriage rates in OECD countries ...

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