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A Disease of the Spirit

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Production deadlines require that I write this Editor's Note before America has elected its next president, a president who will through legislation and appointment affect much of our daily lives and who, by necessity if not by choice, will have to deal with the growing chaos in American health care. As I consider this election, my heart aches—not because of who might or who might not be president, but because as a society we seem to justify apathy by applying a sugar coating to cover its awful taste. I am not talking about voter turnout, but about American attitudes. Just as professionals have in the past found a euphemism for failure to perform in the term "burnout," society as a whole has created a euphemism for failure of citizen involvement. It's called "alienation."

Burnout and political alienation have a common thread....

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