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SOCIAL FRAGMENTATION AND THE DECLINE OF AMERICA...

This book explores the social and political implications of what the authors identify as the
decline of the social contract in America and the rise of a citizenry that has become
self-centered  entitled  and independent. For nearly two decades  America has been in a
¿cultural war¿ over moral values and social issues  becoming a divided nation geographically 
politically  socially  and morally. We are witnessing the decline of American Democracy  the
authors argue  resulting from the erosion of the idea of the social contract. Especially since
the ¿baby boomers ¿ each successive generation has emphasized personal license to the exclusion
of service  social integration  and the common good. With the social contact  the larger
general will becomes the means of establishing reciprocal rights and duties  privileges  and
responsibilities as a basis of the state. The balkanization of America has changed the role of
government from one of oversight to one of dependency  where individual freedom and
responsibility are sacrificed for group equality. This book examines the conditions of this
social fragmentation  and offers ideas of an American Renaissance predicated on communicative
idealism.

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