![]() As is well-known, over the last half century that broad trend from an “I” society to a “we” society has been interrupted and reversed. In the aftermath of the Progressive Era at the beginning of the 20th century, however, America became-unevenly, but steadily-more egalitarian, more cooperative, more generous a society more focused on our responsibilities to one another and less focused on narrower self-interest. In the late 1800s, during the last Gilded Age, America was highly individualistic, starkly unequal, fiercely polarized, and deeply fragmented, just as it is today. ![]() America today is characterized by deep and accelerating inequality unprecedented political polarization vitriolic public discourse a fraying social fabric public and private narcissism-Americans today seem to agree on only one thing: This is the worst of times. But we’ve been here before. ![]()
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