Tyler/Ben Sasse
There have been four landslide US presidential elections in history two of them occurred in 1964 in 1972. Within that eight years swing from Democratic to Republican landslide demonstrates the impact of the 1960s and American culture and political landscape (!!!!!)
Little parties are completely intellectually exhausted by now
This is the first major intra-generational economic growth
Margaret Chase Smith speech against McCarthyGreat books program at St. John’s College in Annapolis
Scar tissue is the foundation of future character
The life of limited work and passive consumption is like eating cotton candy
Aristotelian sense of deliberation decision and action
Already principle of the American idea is universal human dignity government is a tool that helps us realize this principle
The average American and 3.25 friends in 1990 now that average is down to 1.840% of Americans don’t have a single confident they can go to there’s a find a mental crisis of loneliness in this country and people look to follow politics to fill gaping holes that have been caused by communities and families being hauled out over the past decades politics can’t fix that
We assume that the Internet will expose us to more and more diverse things in actuality we’re getting more and more sideload it’s important for young people to read fiction so they can see the world through the lens of other protagonists thus giving themselves a new perspective while helping them understand their own better
Due to echo chambers, it’s going to become really hard to develop empathy and really easy to demonize others and to think that the deep problems of my soul and my mortality could be solved if I can just vanquish this really bad other side (!!)
Building empathy requires going to different times and places both physically and in a literary sense