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Earlier in the week, David Brooks touched on what I believe is at the core of how and why lightweights (on both sides) have risen to prominence.
The Modesty Manifesto
By DAVID BROOKS
Published: March 10, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/1…"...there’s abundant evidence to suggest that we have shifted a bit from a culture that emphasized self-effacement — I’m no better than anybody else, but nobody is better than me — to a culture that emphasizes self-expansion."
"I wonder if the rise in partisanship is influenced in part by a narcissistic sense that, “I know how the country should be run and anybody who disagrees with me is just in the way.”
"Most pervasively, I wonder if there is a link between a possible magnification of self and a declining saliency of the virtues associated with citizenship."
"Citizenship, after all, is built on an awareness that we are not all that special but are, instead, enmeshed in a common enterprise. Our lives are given meaning by the service we supply to the nation. I wonder if Americans are unwilling to support the sacrifices that will be required to avert fiscal catastrophe in part because they are less conscious of themselves as components of a national project."
We could all look into this...especially here on this thread.
- garbage as generalization. but taken apart and analyzed it has decent arguments********
- as a whole it seems to promote a collectiism mentality while negating wether the individual ego is earned. a good counter point to collective liberal philosophy though********
- a good counter to generlized liberal philosophy and the id paid for education self importance********
- he'd do better with a hypothesis on what cause people to think they know better********
- garbage as generalization. but taken apart and analyzed it has decent arguments