Re:The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of lo...
by eevilspock on Friday June 07, 2019 @02:33AM
(#20122152)
To me this is just another symptom of our hyper-individualistic libertarian culture. (Yes, political party fortunes aside, modern culture is increasingly libertarian:
- every person for herself
- selfishness is a virtue
- everything she does, good or bad, is all on her
(meritocracy rules!, you have no one to blame but yourself)
- whatever the market pays is what she earned, even if
it is 100 or 1000 times what other hard workers get
(government, keep your stinking hands off MY money)
- life is transactional.
(sure i can do that. what's in it for me?)
- every person for herself
- selfishness is a virtue
- everything she does, good or bad, is all on her (meritocracy rules!, you have no one to blame but yourself)
- whatever the market pays is what she earned, even if it is 100 or 1000 times what other hard workers get (government, keep your stinking hands off MY money)
- life is transactional. (sure i can do that. what's in it for me?)