Word: selfish
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While millions of people on this planet are crying out for something to eat, the U.S. satisfies its selfish hunger for prestige. Worse, it does it by unleashing a vehicle with terrifying military capabilities...
...Walkman, with its imitators, is a product defining its time, the way television focused the style of the late '50s. Says Detroit Psychologist Gail Parker: "The growth of these things is another result of the 'me society.' These machines are very selfish. When someone is involved in loud music, they're sending out a signal to the rest of the world to be left alone." Pinstriped Businessman Wade Schilders, 24, listening to Dvorak in midtown Manhattan, hits his "hot line" (allowing intrusion by real-world noise) to disagree: "Some people say the gadgets are isolating...
...class background and aristocratic style, Mitterrand went on: "I remind Monsieur Giscard d'Estaing that the people conquered freedom almost two centuries ago against the old feudal or der, and against the feudalism of money, and that the people are fighting for free dom today against the narrow, selfish caste personified by Giscard...
...address the need for security and then for friendship and "belongingness." Next, the demands of the ego arise, the need for aspect. Finally, men and women assert a larger desire for "self-actualization." That seems a harmless and even worthy enterprise but sometimes degenerates into self-infatuation, a vaporously selfish discontent that dead-ends in isolation, the empty "ace that gazes back from the mirror...
...emerging philosophical notion that feelings were the most reliable guide to truth. If so, reasoned the romancers, then the person with the most flamboyantly acute sensitivities must be better than less hysterical mortals. The novels that followed from this conclusion all had one thing in common: they portrayed selfish monstrosities as paragons of virtue...