Crisis of Responsibility : Our Cultural Addiction to Blame and How You Can Cure It

Featured on The Eric Metaxas Radio Show ! "Yup, it is my fault -- and yours. How assuming responsibility makes us better people: 'Crisis of Responsibility' by the inimitable @davidbahnsen" —Amity Shlaes, Author of The Forgotten Man The left and right have gone to great lengths to blame the problems plaguing our society but neither Washington DC, Wall Street, Mexico, China, the Feds, nor the media are the cause of our problems—nor are they the cure. Across the globe a “revolt” of sorts is taking place against elitism. No more will big government, big media, big banks, big bureaucracy, and big institutions hold the secret nuggets of truth and dictate our lives and fortunes. Financial markets, political punditry, and cultural leaders are all scrambling to react to the rise of the often disenfranchised. But what happens after all the bogeymen have been vanquished? What if opposing the incompetence of the European Union, the biases of the American media, the corruption of crony capitalism, the arrogance of political power brokers, and allegedly unfair global trade deals is not enough? The key to American prosperity in this new era of populism is for moral people to make responsibility matter again by renewing personal virtue and form lasting, mediating institutions that will trump the elitist bogeymen and scapegoats for generations to come. If we fail as individual Americans to address this core crisis of responsibility, we have only ourselves to blame for what happens next. **Featured on__The Eric Metaxas Radio Show__!****__"Yup, it is my fault -- and yours. How assuming responsibility makes us better people: 'Crisis of Responsibility' by the inimitable @davidbahnsen"__****The left and right have gone to great lengths to blame the problems plaguing our society but neither Washington DC, Wall Street, Mexico, China, the Feds, nor the media are the cause of our problems—nor are they the cure.** Across the globe a “revolt” of sorts is taking place against elitism. No more willgovernment,media,banks,bureaucracy, andinstitutions hold the secret nuggets of truth and dictate our lives and fortunes. Financial markets, political punditry, and cultural leaders are all scrambling to react to the rise of the often disenfranchised.But what happens after all the bogeymen have been vanquished? What if opposing the incompetence of the European Union, the biases of the American media, the corruption of crony capitalism, the arrogance of political power brokers, and allegedly unfair global trade deals is not enough?The key to American prosperity in this new era of populism is for moral people to make responsibility matter again by renewing personal virtue and form lasting, mediating institutions that will trump the elitist bogeymen and scapegoats for generations to come.If we fail as individual Americans to address this core crisis of responsibility, we have only ourselves to blame for what happens next. Building walls : a new era -- Name your bogeyman : Wall Street, Washington, NAFTA, China, Mexico, and the media -- Disintegrating responsibility : the social foreshadowing to the present crisis -- Occupy Main Street : the moral confusing of vindicating the culprit -- The robots are coming : what free trade and automation mean for the American worker -- Pro-business or pro-crony : where corruption erodes our cultural DNA -- Empowerment through educational choice : the great civil rights issue of our day -- Where culture trumps green card : patriotism, immigration, and nationalism -- Higher education's safe spaces : kerosene on the crisis -- Government by the people, for the people : why the stunning incompetence and inefficiency of big government is the people's problem -- The responsibility remedy : ten ways you can compete, prepare, defend, and get ahead -- The cultural remedy for Main Street : a vision for a free and virtuous society.