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What has emerged in the second half of this century is a culture that in many respect reflects the idea that were taught for decades in the philosophy departments of leading universities of our nation, passed to other departments and passed into the world. They surfaced in additional pages, television programs, movies and comic strips. These ideas are irrational, they cannot be sustained and there are a growing number of thinkers who oppose them. Still, they are read and heard everywhere, with the exception of the eulogizing of Marxism, empirical evidence has blasted socialism into the junk heap f history. The idea are deadly for civilization, deadly for our future and deadly for self-esteem.
The American culture is a battleground between the value of self-responsibility and the values entitlement. This is not the only culture conflict we can see around us, but it is the one most relevant to self-esteem. It is also at the root of many of the others.
We are social beings who realize our humanity fully only in the context of community. The values of our community can inspire the best in our or the works. A culture that clues mind, intellect, knowledge and understanding promotes self-esteem, a culture that denigrate mind undermines self-esteem. A culture in which human beings are held accountable for their actions supports self-=esteem a culture in which no one is held accountable for anything breeds demoralization and self-culture in which people are encouraged to see themselves as victims fosters dependence, passivity and the mentality of entitlement, The evidences for these observations is all around us.
