David Brooks on Youth, Morality, and Loneliness (Live at Mason)
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The Beauty of America
There's one study of the Yama. It should only have 52 data points, but it seems to show they're not especially happy. Why isn't that demonstrated preference is what we should take seriously when it comes to assessing how much individualism we have? Because you can join groups relatively easily still, right? Yeah, well, I would say if you ask people, are you lonely? It used to be 20% who said yes, and now it's 40%. If you look at suicide rates, suicide rates are now to 30-year high. 50,000 people die every year of opioid addiction. There's a massive upshift in social distrust. And so people, we societies
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