National lies
Subtitle: the truth about American values
By: Charles Churchyard.
Publisher: Axroide Publishing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780981571645
Subjects: Social values -- United States; National characteristics, American; Individualism -- United States; Conformity -- United States; United States -- Civilization -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 396-426) and index.
Table of contents: title: An egalitarian people and their enigma; title: Individual freedom as a beneficial self-deception; title: The panglossian foundation; title: National uniformity; title: Group control; title: A necessary secret; title: The changing world of work; title: The changing world outside work; title: The growth of higher ideals (remedial and transcendent); title: The chronic neurosis of frustrated idealism.