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Looking around us, we have good reason to wonder whether we are a civilization in decline,

in decay, in freefall, maybe even to some degree in collapse. Normally, when we talk that way,

or we think that way, we're talking about the Biden administration, we're talking about terrible

policies that have bad effects. But I want to address the question from a different side,

which is just looking around in the culture, looking around at the lives of ordinary Americans and

asking the question, how's it going? It turns out that there's new data that's just come out that is

a clear indication that it is not going well. In fact, that the society, our society, has a kind of

pervasive social, cultural, maybe even moreland spiritual sickness. We're suffering from a kind of

national dementia, a lot of Biden, or perhaps even the phrases of national malaise. Remember that phrase,

it was one that Jimmy Carter used in the late 1970s. Of course, there was no, the malaise then was a

Jimmy Carter malaise, not a national malaise. But we might be having a national malaise now.

Look at a very startling indication of this life expectancy. So life expectancy by and large

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