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James Pogue - Nature, Strife, and American Destiny

From the New World

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Is It Hard Not to Take His Point to Heart?

CNN's John Sutter looks at the idea that people are not able to fantasize about anything in society. He says older Americans have been conditioned to believe everything will always work out for them, even if it doesn't. The American frontier dream is re-emerging among younger people, he writes. "I think a lot of people just sort of realize the falsity and to some degree, like sort of moral emptiness"

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