I Know Best: How Moral Narcissism Is Undermining Our Republic by Roger Lichtenberg Simon ISBN 9781594038051, 1594038058 instant download

I Know Best: How Moral Narcissism Is Undermining Our Republic by Roger Lichtenberg Simon ISBN 9781594038051, 1594038058 instant download

In 1979, Christopher Lasch published the epochal The Culture of Narcissism warning of the normalizing of narcissism in our society. Lasch may have understated it. 35 years later, in the Obama era—with its parade of endless, often inexplicable, scandals—we have a full blown epidemic of what has recently been called Moral Narcissism.
Forget Narcissus and his reflection, Moral Narcissism—the almost schizophrenic divide between intentions and results now pervading our culture—is the new method for feeling good about yourself. It no longer matters how anything turns out as long as your intentions were good, that you were “moral.” And, just as importantly, the only determinant of those intentions, the only one who defines that morality, is you.
I Know Best goes beyond Lasch to lay bare how this moral narcissism is behind all those scandals from Obamacare to the Veteran's Administration to the IRS, Benghazi, Bergdahl, Syria and beyond. Everything the Obama administration did and does was about making them feel good about themselves—the results be damned.
And they have as their allies those supreme moral narcissists in the academy, media and Hollywood, ever willing to ratify those good intentions and ignore those same results.
But I Know Best is not just about the Left. Moral Narcissism affects the right as well, even when they don’t realize it. It is a true epidemic that must be cured in order to save our democratic republic and our futures.
From the Inside Flap
“Do you want to know who is largely responsible for the decline of America in the last half century? And do you want to know why? Roger Simon has written the answer in an original and significant book. He may have even coined a term that will become part of the American lexicon: Moral Narcissism. Few will agree with everything he has written. But so what? He forces you to think—not just feel. This is precisely what we need.”
—Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated talk radio host, columnist, and N