The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic IdealIn a classic indictment of American individualism and isolationism, Philip Slater analyzes the great ills of modern society-violence, competitiveness, inequality, and the national 'addiction' to technology. |
Contents
Kill Anything That Moves | 33 |
Women and Children First | 54 |
Putting Pleasure to Work | 76 |
Divided We Sit | 91 |
Spare Change | 113 |
Your Money or Your Life | 146 |
Notes | 177 |
Common terms and phrases
achieved adult American culture aroused assumption attitudes automobile become behavior bombs CBUs child child-rearing cial competitive confrontation conservatism cooperative corporation counterculture create economic efforts emotional energy environment example fact fantasy feel film force goal gratification heaval human ical idea important individual individualistic institutions invention killing kind less liberal lives male Margaret Mead mass media means ment middle-class mother motivation needs never new-culture North Vietnam Oedipal old culture ourselves parents pattern person pilots pleasure political poor problem produce radical response rich Richard Herrnstein role romantic love scarcity Scott Burns seems sense sexual sexual norms sixties Slater social change society spend Spock sumer talk tend there's things tion trying usually values Viet Viet Cong Vietnam Vietnam war violence wealth women