America Is Deeply Boring. And It's Killing Us.

On how Americans have lost a sense of meaning, why it's hurting us so badly, and what we can do to reclaim it.

It’s time to just admit it. America is boring.

It’s funny: we make amazing things.  We invented planes and the internet and so much more. We walked on the moon.  We dominate the Olympics.

You’d think that this would make us a group of exciting, enterprising, interesting people.  

And yet.  The actual life of the average American is utterly banal.

Americans …