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… is from page 288 of George Will’s 2021 book, American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020 [2] – a collection of many of Will’s columns over these years; (the column [3] from which the quotation below is drawn originally appeared in the Washington Post on September 14th, 2017):
Life is exhausting – and daily choices are unbearably burdensome – for some Americans who are so comfortably situated that they have the time and means to make themselves morally uncomfortable. They think constantly about what they believe are the global ripples, and hence the moral-cum-political ramifications, of their quotidian decisions. And they are making themselves nervous wrecks.