A nation of victims: the decay of the American character
Charles Sykes's ProfScam sparked a furious debate over the mission and the failure of our universities. Now he turns his attention to an even more controversial subject. A Nation of Victims is the first book on the startling decay of the American backbone and the disease that is causing it. The...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Charles Sykes's ProfScam sparked a furious debate over the mission and the failure of our universities. Now he turns his attention to an even more controversial subject. A Nation of Victims is the first book on the startling decay of the American backbone and the disease that is causing it. The spread of victimism has been widely noted in the media; indeed, its symptoms have produced best-selling books, fueled television ratings, spawned hundreds of support groups, and enriched tens of thousands of lawyers across the country. The plaint of the victim - Its not my fault - has become the loudest and most influential voice in America, an instrument of personal and lasting political change. In this incisive, pugnacious, frequently hilarious book, Charles Sykes reveals a society that is tribalizing, where individuals and groups define themselves not by shared culture, but by their status as victims. Victims of parents, of families, of men, of women, of the workplace, of sex, of stress, of drugs, of food, of college reading lists, of personal physical characteristics - these and a host of other groups are engaged in an ever-escalating fight for attention, sympathy, money, and legal or governmental protection. What's going on and how did we get to this point? Sykes traces the inexorable rise of the therapeutic culture and the decline of American self-reliance. With example after example, he shows how victimism has co-opted the genuine victories of the civil-rights movement for less worthy goals. And he offers hope: the prospect of a culture of renewed character, where society lends compassion to those who truly need it. Like Shelby Steele, Charles Murray, and Dinesh D'Souza, Charles Sykes defines the ground of what will be a significant national debate. |
| Beschreibung: | XIV, 289 S. |
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Preface viii
SECTION I: A Society of Victims 1
prologue: scenes from the Zeitgeist 3
Chapter 1: A Society of Victims 11
Victimspeak 15
Compassion Fatigue 18
The No Fault, No Pain Society 20
An Ideology of the Ego 22
SECTION II: The Roots of Victimism 25
Chapter 2: The Pursuit of Happiness 27
The American Paradox 30
Inadequate Man 31
Chapter 3: The Therapeutic Culture 33
The Psychological Society 34
Anxious Man 35
The Marketing of the Therapeutic 38
I Deserve ... 40
The Therapeutic Family 43
The Uses of Adversity 45
The God That Failed 49
x Contents
Chapter 4: Psychologically Correct 53
The Genuine Liberal 57
The Youth Culture 60
SECTION III: The High Noon of Victimism 63
Chapter 5: I Have a Dream ... 65
A Moral Community 67
Chapter 6: The Rise of the Victim 75
Rousseau and the Romantic Victim 76
The New Martyrs 79
The Ideology of Oppression 81
Chapter 7: The Revolt of the Kids 87
Like Parents, Like Child 88
Litmus Tests 91
Chapter 8: Victim Chic, Victim Therapy 95
Egoism and Idealism 97
The Only True Reality 99
Chapter 9: Blaming the Victim 103
The War Over the Family 104
The Youngest Victims 115
Tearing Up the Moral Contract 117
The Revolution of Rising Victimization 118
SECTION IV: The New Victims 121
Chapter 10: The Rights Revolution: E Pluribus Victim 123
So Sue Me 124
The New Victims 126
The New Handicapped 127
Chapter 11: Are We All Sick? 133
The Missing Link 136
Mommy and Daddy Dearest 137
The Abolition of Sin 142
Not Guilty, Just Sick 145
Chapter 12: Pick a Disorder, Any Disorder 149
My Job Is Driving Me Crazy 154
Handicapping for Dollars 156
The Velvet Manacles 157
Contents xi
SECTION V: The Politically Correct Victim 159
Chapter 13: Sensitive Man 161
Mum s the Word 164
Ego uber Alles 166
Big Nanny Is Watching 167
Chapter 14: The Sexual Nightmare 175
The Search for the Women s Standpoint 178
The Rape Culture 181
Sensitive, Silent, and Sullen 188
Chapter 15: Presumed Victimized 195
Color by the Numbers 197
The Fallacy of Inferred Discrimination 200
Pious Frauds 202
The New Racism 204
Chapter 16: The Racial Nightmare 209
Cleopatra Was Black—So Was Beethoven 213
The Misogynistic Victim 217
Whose Burden? 218
Victim vs. Victim 220
Anthems of Hate 222
SECTION VI: The Dead Hand of Victimism 227
Chapter 17: Wrong Questions, Wrong Answers 229
A Question of Conduct 235
Chapter 18: A Moratorium on Blame 239
Toward a Culture of Character 239
Citizens, Not Clients 242
Reining in the Litigators 246
Civitas 247
Caritas 248
Examples of Virtue 249
A Moratorium on Blame 251
Common Sense 252
Notes 257
Index 281
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