Negatrends: Larger Macro Social Problems in American Society

Preface
Introduction

Chapter 1: From Individualism to Egoism to Social Disasters

Chapter 2: The Collusion of Big Money and Big Politics and the Erosion of Democracy

Chapter 3: The “Wilding of America”

Chapter 4: The Shift from a Long-Term Vision to a Short-Term Focus

 Chapter 5: Overemphasis on Quantity at the Expense of Quality

Chapter 6: The Pitfalls of Exceptionalism

Chapter 7: The Fallacies of Growing Anti-Intellectualism

Chapter 8: Increased Partisanship and Intolerance

Chapter 9: Extreme Consumerism, Hedonism, and Cheating to Get Ahead: The Erosion of the Protestant Ethic

Chapter 10: Rising Insecurity and Fear

Chapter 11: Medicalization of Behavior and Growing Drug Addiction

Chapter 12: The Criminalization of Behavior

Chapter 13: Indebtedness: Spending It Forward

Conclusion
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