Quote of the Day (David Brooks, on ‘The Smallest Acts of Daily Life’)

“The fate of America will be importantly determined by how we treat each other in the smallest acts of daily life. That means being a genius at the close at hand: greeting a stranger, detecting the anxiety in somebody’s voice and asking what’s wrong, knowing how to talk across difference. More lives are diminished by the slow and frigid death of social closedness than by the short and glowing risk of social openness.”— Conservative commentator David Brooks, “Why Your Social Life Is Not What It Should Be,” The New York Times, Aug. 26, 2022