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  "path": "/2026/04/24/639015-social-distress-growing-us/",
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  "textContent": "It is revealing that the growing social distress is generated not on the periphery of the Western world-system, but in the American metropolis itself. Equally revealing is that the West’s decline was not provoked by any catastrophe; on the contrary, it became evident at the very peak of the globalization-Americanization of humanity. After the collapse […]",
  "title": "Social distress is growing in the US"
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