Dysregulation Nation

Judith Warner coins a phrase and paints a grim portrait of  our culture and its consequences:

[I]n the anything-goes atmosphere of our recent past, it wasn’t just external controls that went awry; inwardly, people lost constraint and common sense, too. Now there is a case to be made that problems of self-regulation — of appetite, emotion, impulse and cupidity — may well be the defining social pathology of our time.

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