Get Serious: About Suffering

George MacKay as Lance Corporal Will Schofield in the WWI drama 1917. (Alamy)
The war on pain has not only robbed us of resilience. It has sold us a mirage that is making us miserable.
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Get Serious is a regular series by Katherine Boyle. Don’t miss the essay that kicked it off, The Case for American Seriousness, or her last column, Get Serious: About Time.
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