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If society is making us sick, how can we heal?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Rise of Mistrust on All Sides

I think we tend to see these sorts of things as expressions of individual maladies. When they're often manifestations of social pathologies, which is why I'm pretty damn sick of some of these facile attacks on millennials and younger people. It's not actually trying to understand the problem. It's just throwing darts for the sake of throwing darts. Apart from our galling, it is also completely unscientific. Because human beings like any other creature can't be understood outside the context of their environment. To look at animals in a zoo and try to understand the nature of animals by how they behave in a zoo tells you nothing about how they thrive in a natural environment that actually supports them

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