Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: From Individualism to Egoism to Social Disasters
Chapter 2: The Collusion of Big Money and Big Politics and the Erosion of Democracy
Chapter 3: The "Wilding of America"
Chapter 4: The Shift from a Long-Term Vision to a Short-Term Focus
Chapter 5: Overemphasis on Quantity at the Expense of Quality
Chapter 6: The Pitfalls of Exceptionalism
Chapter 7: The Fallacies of Growing Anti-Intellectualism
Chapter 8: Increased Partisanship and Intolerance
Chapter 9: Extreme Consumerism, Hedonism, and Cheating to Get Ahead: The Erosion of the Protestant Ethic
Chapter 10: Rising Insecurity and Fear
Chapter 11: Medicalization of Behavior and Growing Drug Addiction
Chapter 12: The Criminalization of Behavior
Chapter 13: Indebtedness: Spending It Forward
Conclusion
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