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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU was not enamored of his contemporaries: They were motivated by selfish desires, he said, and a little too frivolous in their interest. But Rousseau was a political philosopher, and that me is he had to have some ideas for the future, preferably optimistic ones. After all, the state of nature may be be romantic, but it doesn't have much in the way of creature comforts. So Rousseau came up with an idea, a scenario to bring culture to the heathens, and men would learn to live for each other. It went something like this...
Afterward, she says, "I was emotionally blitzed. All my energy was channeled into my work. I was doing Joe Tynan at the time. It was a selfish period, a period of healing for me, of trying to incorporate what had happened into my life. I wanted to find a place where I could carry it forever and still function...
...second trend couldn't be more different. Coming on the heels of the more public-minded 1960's, the '70s saw an upsurge of selfish attention to, well, the self. Voluminous bestsellers on exercise, fitness and sexual joy were snapped up like so many peanuts at a corner bar. And when John Q. Public wasn't eyeing his calories as instructed by countless handbooks, he was spending more money on outrageously expensive fashions than the entire race of Bedouins since their descent from Ham. Gurus of this 'Me Decade' stressed the gratification of the individual--particularly themselves...
...Neill got personal in his criticism of President Reagan's tax program. Charged the Speaker: "He has no concern for the little man of America; he never meets those people." The President, O'Neill continued, "doesn't understand the working class. He has very, very selfish people around him, people only of the upper echelon ... who have forgotten where they've come from...
...fair break these days," 44% agreed in 1974. Now that figure has increased to 53%. There is also a growing sense that the country has become too narcissistic and unconcerned about the common welfare. In 1974, 46% of those polled agreed with the statement that "people have become too selfish and self-centered and have put their own pleasure ahead of the larger interests of their families and their country." Today 51% agree. In 1974 slightly more than a third of those polled said they agreed that "people like yourself are powerless to change things in the country." That figure...