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This book explores the social and political implications of what
the authors identify as the decline of the social contract in
America and the rise of a citizenry that has become self-centered,
entitled, and independent. For nearly two decades, America has been
in a "cultural war" over moral values and social issues, becoming a
divided nation geographically, politically, socially, and morally.
We are witnessing the decline of American Democracy, the authors
argue, resulting from the erosion of the idea of the social
contract. Especially since the "baby boomers," each successive
generation has emphasized personal license to the exclusion of
service, social integration, and the common good. With the social
contact, the larger general will becomes the means of establishing
reciprocal rights and duties, privileges, and responsibilities as a
basis of the state. The balkanization of America has changed the
role of government from one of oversight to one of dependency,
where individual freedom and responsibility are sacrificed for
group equality. This book examines the conditions of this social
fragmentation, and offers ideas of an American Renaissance
predicated on communicative idealism.
This book explores the social and political implications of what
the authors identify as the decline of the social contract in
America and the rise of a citizenry that has become self-centered,
entitled, and independent. For nearly two decades, America has been
in a "cultural war" over moral values and social issues, becoming a
divided nation geographically, politically, socially, and morally.
We are witnessing the decline of American Democracy, the authors
argue, resulting from the erosion of the idea of the social
contract. Especially since the "baby boomers," each successive
generation has emphasized personal license to the exclusion of
service, social integration, and the common good. With the social
contact, the larger general will becomes the means of establishing
reciprocal rights and duties, privileges, and responsibilities as a
basis of the state. The balkanization of America has changed the
role of government from one of oversight to one of dependency,
where individual freedom and responsibility are sacrificed for
group equality. This book examines the conditions of this social
fragmentation, and offers ideas of an American Renaissance
predicated on communicative idealism.
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