Summing up all we have covered thus far, here’s our situation as best we know it: We’ve all been softened, weakened, robbed of resilience from years of living in the Comfort Culture. (Our biggest crisis was something like a long line at Starbucks or our phone battery dying.) Then came global trauma in the years of the pandemic and its sociodramas. So we are depleted and beat up. We are in trauma rehab now, and we need to take that rehab seriously. Pretending everything is back to normal is delusional. We’re therefore in an especially vulnerable place right now. Desolation and other predatory
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