# The Tolling Bell

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Katherine C. Epstein]]
- Full Title: The Tolling Bell
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/the-tolling-bell/

## Highlights
- Across the political spectrum, we Americans are losing the ability to see one another in our full complex humanity.
- Curiosity about one’s adversaries—about how they think or see the world—has come to seem sinful.
- Trumpism isn’t only dehumanization, but the dehumanization of an imagined other is its vanishing point, just as every brushstroke on a broad and complex canvas pulls the eyes toward a single focal point.
- Mutual dehumanization is the path to human desolation on a scale that goes well beyond the unhappiness of our current moment.
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