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The Vision Of The Annointed: Self-congratulation As A Basis For Social Policy Gebundene Ausgabe – 14. Juli 1995

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Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Sowell sees what has happened during that time not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a tainted vision whose defects have led to crises in education, crime, and family dynamics, and to other social pathologies. In this book, he describes how elitesthe anointedhave replaced facts and rational thinking with rhetorical assertions, thereby altering the course of our social policy.

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Herausgeber ‏ : ‎ Basic Books (14. Juli 1995)
Sprache ‏ : ‎ Englisch
Gebundene Ausgabe ‏ : ‎ 320 Seiten
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0465089941
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0465089949
Abmessungen ‏ : ‎ 17.15 x 3.18 x 24.77 cm

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DT Flynn

A must read to understand a crazy world.

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 31. Juli 2023

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A very clearly and reasoned examination. While written before the internet revolution, it clearly is salient to today's world and social drivers. A must read for the open-minded who are trying to make sense of the world.

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Rainer Boegle

If you only knew how bad things are...

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Finally, I understand how and why "crisis" are created and horribly mismanaged.
Since I read this, I can see the same patterns all around me.
I was once of the opinion that one should pay taxes to get a peaceful and at least half-decently working society, but now I do not want to pay taxes any more, because these "experts" in government mishandle and actively destroys the lives of people who they say they want to help improve their lives.

Everyone should read this.

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Seldom learned so much in one Book

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A must Read for everyone who is interessted in politics. Much analytical power. Sowell is real one of the great thinkers of our Time.

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James Gallen

A Timeless Reminder To Be Read and Re-Read

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 24. Dezember 2012

When considering public policy issues, we often think only of the elements of that specific problem. In "the Vision of the Anointed" economist Thomas Sowell guides us to look at the visions behind the specific solutions advanced. Sowell examines the difference between the vision of the anointed, those who feel that they know better than others and must provide solutions to save the common people from themselves, and the tragic vision of the benighted public that recognizes that there are no solutions, only trade-offs.

Sowell raises many points about a vision which ignores all facts not supportive of the vision and the results that could not have proceeded from the actions of the anointed. He discusses arguments that fail because of their own premises, such as the conclusion, after the temperature has risen 10 degrees since sunrise that, if present trends continue, we will all burn to a crisp by the end of the month. He provides examples of "crises" that exist only to beg for the solutions of the anointed, statistics that do not support the points for which they are advanced, the crusades that admit of no analysis of trade-offs, the mascots of the anointed who must always be supported regardless of their merits and the tactic employed by the anointed to denigrate the intelligence and motives of any who dare oppose them.

Although this book is now over 15 years old, its points are timeless. We are still confronted with the vision of the anointed and are living with the policies it has imposed on society. The writing is clever, entertaining and persuasive. It is a book that should be read and periodically re-read to aid us in keeping our minds focused on the principles that really matter.

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grundle2600

It's very nice to read such a logical book.

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 12. April 2000

Thomas Sowell is part conservative, and part libertarian. Being that I am fully libertarian, I tend to agree with most of his ideas, expecially those regarding economic issues. And even in those cases where I don't agree with him, I still credit him with having good arguments and sound logic.
The title of this book refers to the fact that there are certain people who think that they know exactly how everyone else should live. In this book Sowell talks about how these people tend to use the government to force their values and ideas onto everybody else. Being that Sowell is part conservative, he himself is actually somewhat guilty of this to some degree. For example, he often favors using the U.S. military to interfere in the affairs of other countries. Despite this, Sowell's busy-body attitude pales in comparison with those of the people whom he targets in this book. Specifically, the people that he targets are those on the left-wong of the political spectrum. The typical attitude of liberals is that whenever there's any kind of a problem, there's always a government solution. Liberals hold this idea even when it was the government that caused the problem in the first place.
For example liberals are big supporters of government farm subsides. The government pays farmers not to grow food. This reduces the supply of food, and this causes the price of food to go up. Then these very same liberals complain about the millions of hungry women and children, and the liberals claim that in order to solve this problem, we need to spend more money on welfare and food stamps. Thus, the real purpose of farm subsidies is to increase the price of food, so that poor people will become dependent on welfare and food stamps, so that the poor people will vote for the Democrats. The Democrats pretend to care about poor people, but if this was really the case, then why do the Democrats support these farm programs which make food more expensive?
And it's the exact same thing with low income housing. Liberals favor all sorts of laws that make it illegal for the private secotr to build decent, affordable housing. Zoning laws, density restrictions, anti-development laws, and all sorts of other laws make it illegal for the private sector to build low cost housing. Liberals are big supporters of these laws. And of course liberals are also the same poeple who complain the loudest about the lack of decent, affordable housing, and then they say that we need to spend more money on HUD and public housing and other such things. Sowell loves to point out the hypocrisy of liberals with regard to this kind of thing.
Forty years of the War on Poverty has resulted in massive increases in illegitimacy rates, irresponsibility, and fatherless homes, and has taguht millions of people that there is no need to work or to plan for the future. And of course the liberals' solution to all of these problems is to spend even more money on government programs.
Adjusted for inflation, spending on the public schools, per student, has quadrupled since the 1950s. Despite this, the liberals keep claiming that we need to spend more money on the public schools. Of course many of these same liberals send their own children to private schools.
Sowell views liberals as being stuck up snobs who think that the government should control people's lives. Liberals feel that they know exactly how people should live, and they want to use the government to force their values on everybody else.
Also it's interesting about Sowell's attitudes on affirmative action. Sowell is black and he is against afffirmative action. Sowell knows that affirmative action teaches blacks to be lazy and to avoid working hard. Liberals love affirmative action. Liberals think that blacks are inferior and can't make it on their own. Sowell calls liberals for the condescending bigots that they are.
I have been reading Sowell's newspaper column for many years, and I have been a big fan of his writing for a long time. This book is a very valuable addition to my collection. I have read several other books by Sowell, and they were all very good too.

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A conservative manifesto

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 5. Juli 2000

This book belongs with Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" in its timelessness. Sowell put together another masterpiece of incredible scholarship. Behind the title of the book is its premise that failed liberal policy is a result from a fallacious implicit worldview that the left wing holds, namely, that They are the Annointed, send from God to save us all.
He presents this premise by showing self-congratulation at the end of numerous failed social policies (this book reads not only as good nonfiction but as an excellent source of statistical information!). Sowell uses quotes from before and after each liberal fiasco, and finishes his analysis by presenting an alternate Vision, the "tragic vision."
As much as I like Sowell, his tragic vision (based on a very dim view of human nature) conceeds the moral, idealistic argument to the left, as every conservative has done for decades. Still, his biting criticism of the left is necessary reading for any freedom advocate. Buy it now.

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I bought this book from second-hand vendor through Amazon. It took some time to arrive but it is just like brand new at fraction of the price.

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Never heard of Thomas Sowell before but recently watched a youtube video by him and was more than impressed with his perspectives being a Black American conservative leaning author, I think the media has largely ignored his work because he makes too much sense. As an economist with training from the highest level of education in the US his words are refreshing brilliant and somewhat revolutionary. Everything he talks about is grounded in fact and thoroughly backed up with citation and historical sources. No fooling around and not being political black and white either. A real intellectual heavyweight that you may not know exists. If you don't like the ugly side of Democrats or the ugly side of republicans give this a shot. It will change your perspective only because it makes sense

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Patthy Silva

Recomendadíssimo!

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Em"The Vision Of The Anointed; Self-Congratulation As A Basis For Social Policy", Thomas Sowell expõe, com maestria, o fenômeno da superioridade moral de pessoas com determinadas posições ideológicas. Para tanto, apresenta duas categorias muito importantes:

a) os ungidos, pessoas que se percebem como moralmente superiores em razão de suas posições ideológicas atreladas à esquerda do espectro político. São membros da elite política e intelectual, cujo pensamento entranhou-se na mídia e na academia, de maneira que a maioria das pessoas sequer consideram que há outras formas de pensar;
b) os sem luz, aqueles que discordam dos ungidos.
Sowell destaca uma característica importante dos ungidos: suas ações não se baseiam na realidade concreta e sim nas suas intenções (ou melhor, na aparência de suas intenções).

Como as ações dos ungidos carecem de evidências empíricas, eles utilizam duas táticas para obstruir o debate público:

a) demonizar o oponente. ((...)aquilo que discorda com a visão predominante não é visto apenas como erro, mas como pecado." p.3);

b) desenvolver um vocabulário próprio para esconder sua fragilidade argumentativa.

Por essa razão, vemos o recorrente uso das mesmas palavras: crise, decolonizar, afrocentrado, eurocêntrico, supremacista, ocidental etc. O autor chama esse fenômeno de “inflação verbal”: "as ordinárias vicissitudes da vida transformam-se em traumas. Qualquer situação que eles desejam mudanças transforma-se em crise." (p.215)

"Apesar da advertência de Hamlet contra o auto-enaltecimento, a visão dos ungidos não é simplesmente uma visão do mundo e do seu funcionamento num sentido casual. É também uma visão de si mesmos e do seu papel moral nesse mundo. É uma visão de uma retidão diferenciada. Não é uma visão da tragédia da condição humana: os problemas existem porque os outros não são tão sábios ou tão virtuosos quanto eles, os ungidos. " ( p.5)

Livro recomendadíssimo!

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Yeats

Prophetic and disturbing

Rezension aus dem Vereinigten Königreich vom 1. Oktober 2019

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This is one amazing book. Published in 1996 it predicts with remarkable accuracy the growing destructive power the Liberal-Left in American society and by extension, Western society in general.

What Sowell calls "the annointed" we now commonly refer to as the metropolitan liberal elite or the intelligentsia. This elite have an unshakable belief in their moral and intellectual superiority over the masses. His analysis of their baleful influence on the lives of ordinary citizens (or "the benighted" as Sowell calls them) is remarkably clear. The annointed are unwilling to face up to the damaging social and economic consequences of their very many failures.

Unfortunately, in the years since this book was written the annointed have reached unprecedented levels of power and influence in all the most important areas of public life – politics, criminal justice, education, healthcare, social services, mass media (even the military to some extent). If this progression continues we find ourselves living under an all pervasive system of social/moral control of enforced "politcal correctness".

When politicians or the media speak of "a crisis which must be addressed" you know the annointed have spotted an opportunity to take the moral high ground with all the self-congratulation that will involve.

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Paul Dow

Why progressive social policies fail

Rezension aus Australien vom 20. September 2022

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I found this book incredibly interesting and mentally stimulating.

Thomas Sowell Pixar part very clearly and in great detail how American society (and the West more generally) has really regressed through an era of self inflicted wounds over the past few decades.

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