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...most alive--and drawn most acidly--is Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, who has the same stepfather as Vidal, Hugh Auchincloss. Vidal introduces the young Jackie in a scene in which she is showing his stepsister how to douche after sex. He depicts Jackie as a tough and consummately selfish woman who loves two things, money and publicity--the former more than the latter. On a night out with Vidal in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in the 1960s, she appears sly and humorous, a girl who wants to kick up her heels. At one point she begs Vidal to tell...
This points to the most ironic of evolutionary psychology's implications: many of the impulses created by natural selection's ruthless imperative of genetic self-interest aren't selfish in any straightforward way. Love, pity, generosity, remorse, friendly affection and enduring trust, for example, are part of our genetic heritage. And, oddly, some of these affiliative impulses are frustrated by the structure of modern society at least as much as the more obviously "animal" impulses. The problem with modern life, increasingly, is less that we're "oversocialized" than that we're undersocialized--or, that too little of our "social" contact...
...Call me selfish but I much prefer belated knowledge or wrongdoing. If I had seen the videotape of the Serbian capture of the "safe haven" of Srebrenica, I might have been compelled to fly over there and take up arms. But as it is, regret is the best I can muster from reading yesterday's news...
Indeed, Harrison appears in many ways to defythe stereotype of the selfish,bottom-line-obsessed business executive...
Well-intentioned and likable they are not. And yet the selfish, slothful heroines of the hit British TV show Absolutely Fabulous have attracted a cult of admirers worldwide. Produced for the BBC in 1993, the comedy has been exported to nearly 20 countries, including Israel and Japan. When the show aired on Comedy Central last July, its ratings were twice as high as anything the cable channel had run in prime time. The first 12 episodes have been in continual rerun ever since...