From the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic for Time magazine comes the tremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive, argument that our devotion to the largely unexamined myth of egalitarianism lies at the heart of the ongoing "dumbing of America."
Americans have always stubbornly clung to the myth of egalitarianism, of the supremacy of the individual average man. But here, at long last, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic William A. Henry III takes on, and debunks, some basic, fundamentally ingrained ideas: that everyone is pretty much alike (and should be); that self-fulfillment is more imortant thant objective achievement; that everyone has something significant to contribute; that all cultures offer something equally worthwhile; that a truly just society would automatically produce equal success results across lines of race, class, and gender; and that the common man is almost always right. Henry makes clear, in a book full of vivid examples and unflinching opinions, that while these notions are seductively democratic they are also hopelessly wrong.
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讀後感
争取两性平等、争取种族平等……一切的平等都是值得争取的。有人反对为了结果的看似平等用不同标准来替代同一标准，认为在起点上要平等，提供平等竞争机会，而不是用工作与受教育机会（指大学）的配额制的终点平等……看起来很完美的结论。 但是，事情总有不如意。...
評分Every culture is good enough for those who live in that culture. However, are there any culture that is somewhat better than others? Yes, there is. Henry, III listed 7 criteria for a superior culture. One does not have to agree with him in every way. But ...
評分话说前几日在浙北小城，淘得一册小书——《为精英主义辩护》。匆匆翻完，倒是颇为有趣。 手头上这本是2000年译林的版子，译者是胡利平，是“万花筒译丛”中的译本。译者胡利平出身外交官家庭，1977年考入了北京外国语学院英语系，毕业后又考上了北外的“联合国译训班”，随后成...
評分话说前几日在浙北小城，淘得一册小书——《为精英主义辩护》。匆匆翻完，倒是颇为有趣。 手头上这本是2000年译林的版子，译者是胡利平，是“万花筒译丛”中的译本。译者胡利平出身外交官家庭，1977年考入了北京外国语学院英语系，毕业后又考上了北外的“联合国译训班”，随后成...
評分Every culture is good enough for those who live in that culture. However, are there any culture that is somewhat better than others? Yes, there is. Henry, III listed 7 criteria for a superior culture. One does not have to agree with him in every way. But ...
用戶評價
W.H.應該是吵架高手……例子舊瞭些，放在今天能至少擴充一倍。人人都可以齣風頭，可惜現在成百上韆的人把這看作是與生俱來的權利
评分A powerful defense for elites and noblemen .
评分A powerful defense for elites and noblemen .
评分W.H.應該是吵架高手……例子舊瞭些，放在今天能至少擴充一倍。人人都可以齣風頭，可惜現在成百上韆的人把這看作是與生俱來的權利
评分A powerful defense for elites and noblemen .
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