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Title: Liberal Selfishness
Review: This book is written from the perspective of our liberal selfish culture and ridicules the idea that people could do more to improve their situation in life by cooperatively working to improve their corner of the world than by working for selfish gain. It is no surprise that this book is so popular given that we live in a selfish liberal culture. My one star review reflects the fact that I am not part of that culture. Numerous books written before the liberal cultural plague explain the value of cooperation. Examples include de Tocqueville, Hobbes, Machiavelli's Discourses, Livy, and of course all religious writing from the Bible to the Analects.Note - I only read the beginning and skimmed the rest since I found it intolerable.
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