By: David Brooks – nytimes.com – September 29, 2022 If you’ve been paying attention to the social trends, you probably have some inkling that boys and men are struggling, in the U.S. and across the globe. They are struggling in the classroom. American girls are 14 percentage points more likely to be “school ready” than boys at age 5, controlling...

As most Americans now realize, America is experiencing a societal breakdown. This should be obvious to anyone, even those facilitating this breakdown as they openly acknowledge they seek to break down American society.

G. K. Chesterton once observed that modern people have a pernicious habit of “sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.” We fixate on exceptions as if they invalidate general truths.

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An estimated 5.6% of U.S. adults rate their lives poorly enough to be categorized as “suffering,” the highest level in 14 years of measurement.

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Neither headline numbers nor reasoned economic assessments reveal the toll that surging prices take on many households. The non-monetary cost of today’s high inflation follows hard on the heels of the very different but similarly wrenching COVID-19 pandemic, and will likely have two profound consequences.

Households in lower-income countries typically spend a higher percentage of their income on food, making the pain of food inflation more extreme.

The share of Americans who report having difficulties paying their bills has surpassed its 2020 pandemic peak in a US Census Bureau survey, underscoring the toll of soaring prices on budgets.

How can it be that with so much cattle in America, we sometimes can’t buy meat? At the beginning of the pandemic, Costco, Wegmans and Kroger limited purchases of beef.