Pathology of the elites
Subtitle: how the arrogant classes plan to run your life
By: Michael Knox Beran
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781566638746
Subjects: Social conditions; Elite (Social sciences); Politics and government; Liberalism
Description: In this bracing collection of provocative essays, Michael Knox Beran examines the false benevolence that characterizes the power classes in contemporary America. Their enlightened pity for their fellow citizens, he charges, conceals an instinct for power rather than compassion. Mr. Beran argues that today's elites have come to rely on a social philosophy that reduces people to a mass of social groups and types, obscures their individual humanity, and makes them easier to manipulate. While they tragically conceive their desire for authority as a form of virtue, the elite classes have set about remaking schools, rewriting the U.S. Constitution, dehumanizing charity, and making war on tradition in the name of a crude form of Social Darwinism. -- Product Description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.