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The Rise of Selfishness in America ReviewMr. Collier is absolutely right that contemporary American society is far too self-centered and disorganized. European nations put a very high priority on things like health care, education and other basic services. Americans are more concerned with maximizing private consumption. Why is consumerism so important in their eyes? Mr. Collier traces the history of hedonism in America and finds that it has a lot to do with the mass media in the last Century (20th) which created a preoccupation with the isolated self and its manufatured wants. This led people to identiy less with their community and more with a private fantasy world. The idealized self--tough, ruthless and outrageous must be catered to at all costs. Mr. Collier is right to attack these aspects of society today. But the book has a fatal flaw. Mr. Collier has a truly strange fixation on the Victorian period and holds its shrill self-righteous prudery up as a vision of healthy human community. The Victorian period was the age that INVENTED consumerism and social isolation. Its inflecible code of morality was often an excuse for misanthropy. It set up an ideal no living creature could even honestly aspire to and then condemned us all for failing. It made people uncomfortable with each other and thus affirmed radical individualism. Mr. Collier seems to equate high levels of social interest with inhuman rigidity and total abstinance from alcohol and dancing. In these monents he becomes just an absurd puritan. Look at groups of people like the Eastern European Jews who have a great commitment to social justice as well as neighborhood and family. They also love dancing, wine, and intense emotional expression. Pleasure isn't the problem. The problem is seeking pleasure in isolation from a warm, loving community. The Victorians were notorious secret drunkards and secret sexual fetishists. Not good role models. Read Erich Fromm for a better pean to community and responsibility.The Rise of Selfishness in America Overview

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