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The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
by Christopher Lasch
This book should be mandatory reading for everyone 25+ because it presents clear-cut examples of how we as a society and as individuals have warped our sense of ambition so it becomes self-conscious anxiety rather than external community modifiers.
Upon our ascent up Maslow's Pyramid of Needs, we focus on reflection rather than action and we've navel-gazed to the point where the navel gazes back. This book hurt my ego (a good and much-needed thing) and made me want to improve upon the collective community in a way where I would combine my protestant work ethic with pride for my neighbors and family and maybe go forth and do a little good. Lasch presents a great case for why as a culture we need to do better and how.
If you like self-help books, please read this book because it demolishes literally the entire industry. The industry has given you a problem only they've supposedly solved, but you gotta keep buying the books apparently. Only 50 years later, this book begs us to pull away from Socratic questioning that looks more like Simon says so we do whatever we were supposed to be doing in the first place before our introspective consciences ruined the idea of community.
Upon our ascent up Maslow's Pyramid of Needs, we focus on reflection rather than action and we've navel-gazed to the point where the navel gazes back. This book hurt my ego (a good and much-needed thing) and made me want to improve upon the collective community in a way where I would combine my protestant work ethic with pride for my neighbors and family and maybe go forth and do a little good. Lasch presents a great case for why as a culture we need to do better and how.
If you like self-help books, please read this book because it demolishes literally the entire industry. The industry has given you a problem only they've supposedly solved, but you gotta keep buying the books apparently. Only 50 years later, this book begs us to pull away from Socratic questioning that looks more like Simon says so we do whatever we were supposed to be doing in the first place before our introspective consciences ruined the idea of community.