"If we’re going to obsess about personal responsibility, let’s also have a conversation about social responsibility."
I think its important to recognize the limits of individual ability be resilient or to recover, even while we tout that it is possible. The Kristoffs write in the comments section that "One thing we learned in writing Tightrope (the book from which this excerpt is adapted) is that the phrase originally meant the opposite of what it does now. In the 18th and 19th centuries, to pull oneself up by the bootstraps was to do something impossible. Only in the 20th century did it take on its current meaning."
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