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*[https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/01/09/tuning-out-americans-on-the-edge-of-politics/ Tuning Out: Americans on the Edge of Politics], Pew Research, 2024
 
*[https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/01/09/tuning-out-americans-on-the-edge-of-politics/ Tuning Out: Americans on the Edge of Politics], Pew Research, 2024
 
*[https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf Avoid News Towards a Healthy News Diet] By Rolf Dobelli
 
*[https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf Avoid News Towards a Healthy News Diet] By Rolf Dobelli
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==== Research indicates that politics is serving as a poor substitute for friendship among lonely people ====
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Politics, as a seductive form of social therapy for lonely people, offers a sense of belonging and moral action. However, politics does not provide community and connection, as it is fueled by resentment and a desire to validate one's side while shameing the other.
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Society has failed to teach the skills and cultivate the inclination to treat each other with kindness, generosity, and respect.
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Schools have historically focused on moral formation, but since World War II, the focus has gradually fallen away.
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The author argues that understanding one another requires seeing people as distinct individuals, members of groups, and their social location. This requires a graduate-level education in the process of understanding another. The goal of Part 1 is to help people see people on a personal level, while Part 2 aims to help people understand and be present for people during harsh times, amid social strife and bitter conflicts of our current age.
    
=== Polarized thinking and depression/anxiety ===
 
=== Polarized thinking and depression/anxiety ===
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