America lets its citizens walk inadvertently into any number of life traps, all alone in a way that would mystify the elders of a pre-1940 world and utterly confuse members of nonliterate tribes. Careers are chosen without access to relevant information. Workplaces selected where leaders abdicate responsibility. College binge drinking goes socially unc…
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