The Vision of The Anointed

The Vision of The Anointed
Written by Thomas Sowell, 1995

I found this book to be truly enlightening. Truths revealed about the last 50 years and more in the United States reveal how we ended up where we are today and hint at where we will be tomorrow. The truths revealed in this book are sometimes disturbing, but then you realize that you are better off to know the truth – even if the truth is not pleasant.

This book is focused on the leadership of the country, and of course that means politics. But the author has been diligent to NOT use labels such as Republican, Democrat, Conservative or Liberal because The Vision is not contained in such broadly defined words. Throughout the book principles are explained, words are defined and examples are used to illustrate it all. It becomes quite obvious that poor decisions being made today are not by chance, but rather they are the natural fruit of a faulty mindset.

From the book jacket:

“This book is a devastating critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Author Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a vision whose defects have led to disasters in education, crime, family disintegration, and other social pathology.

This is an empirical study in which “politically correct” theory is repeatedly contradicted by facts – and the sharp contradictions between the two explained in terms of a whole set of self-congratulatory assumptions held by political and intellectual elites. These elites – the anointed – often consider themselves “thinking people” but much of what is called thinking turns out, on examination, to be rhetorical assertion, followed by evasions of mounting evidence against those assertions.

This is a book about a mindset and its consequences. The vision of the anointed is seen not merely as a failure but a fatal danger to the value and the future of American society.”

This book is a good study and worth the time.

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