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I just found a new David Brooks article from the Atlantic titled “How America Got Mean” that really delves deep into the history of moral education in our country, and how as a people we have stopped training ourselves to be good people, and have instead generally just trusted that our human nature as individuals would lead us to become moral adults, but how that has mostly led us to be sad, angry, and self serving. I don’t agree with every point made, but on the whole I think it’s a very worthwhile essay.
For anyone who is immediately disagreeing with the title of the essay, I would like to premise this by saying that America on the whole has always been “mean”, but I think we can all move beyond that general truth to recognize that their has been a definitive structural/philosophical change
For anyone who is immediately disagreeing with the title of the essay, I would like to premise this by saying that America on the whole has always been “mean”, but I think we can all move beyond that general truth to recognize that their has been a definitive structural/philosophical change
Why Americans Are So Awful to One Another — The Atlantic
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.
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