We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call — Joseph Bottum
We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call — Joseph Bottum
We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call — Joseph Bottum
We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call — Joseph Bottum
We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call — Joseph Bottum
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We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call it civilization. Culture, society, the workaday interactions of ordinary time.

— Joseph Bottum
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