The ME Decade - Jeff Calkins - April 1978

Jeff Calkins

Obsession with the self is the outstanding characteristic of much of modern American culture. This article explains why the 1970s have been called ...The ME Decade The banquet hall of the large hotel in downtown Los Angeles is filled with a certain tension: 249 anxious souls are taking their turns marching up to the microphone and telling the others the one thing in their lives they would most like to eliminate. Each one is lost in his own deep, private inner space, concentrating on his particular problem: husband, wife, weaknesses, craven fears, impotence, frigidity, grim habits, primordial horrors. The most private, intimate details of 249 individual lives are reverberating over the loudspeaker! For one delicious moment, each person attending this mass confession gets to be the object of everyone's attention. After concentrating on their own lives, they get to bathe in the intense glow of the psychological spotlight. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library