Perhaps it’s a side effect of our unprecedented
wealth
, leisure, and comfort. Perhaps it’s the result of so many broken social promises, our imperial misadventures, or the general coarsening of our national spirit and discourse. Whatever the cause, something is wrong. You can see it in how we speak to one another. You can see it in how we react to national and local crises. From the very top to the bottom, we are clearly a miserable
people
, allowing our general dissatisfaction with life to spiral into outright contempt for fellow human beings.

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