According to "The Marketing of Evil," Americans have come to tolerate, embrace and even champion many things that would have horrified their parents' generation – from easy divorce and unrestricted abortion-on-demand to extreme body piercing and teaching homosexuality to grade-schoolers. Does that mean today's Americans are inherently more morally confused and depraved than previous generations? Of course not, says Kupelian. But they have fallen victim to some of the most stunningly brilliant and compelling marketing campaigns in modern history.
Can we ever safely return to less enlightenment & more discrimination? To a time where 13% of the pregnant high school student body would be a shame instead of a headline? A time that allowed children to play games for fun & not as training for a career? A time where educators taught the teachable & somebody else babysat those unable to learn? A time that placed personal achievment secondary to what is right?
Or are we living in healthier, better times?
The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom