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0 Left 0 Centered 0 RightOne of the disturbing paradoxes of contemporary American life is the way in which our capacity for genuine outrage has declined as the general rancor of our political and cultural conversations has risen. It's also probably no accident that the loss of our collective ability to express justified indignation — as opposed to generalized rage — has been accompanied by the virtual extinction of the response that outrage is meant to evoke: shame.