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So I want to talk about this story from The Atlantic.

This is a long form article, a story called, is called How America Got Mean in a culture devoid of moral education.

Generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate self-referential world.

This is a story by David Brooks, who I googled very, very, very briefly.

David Brooks is a conservative commentator.

Yeah, but he's like a...

He doesn't feel conservative. You got to to you got to look at in the in the political sense he's a

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