The Myth of the Self Made Man

I've spoken a lot about the myth of the self made man. It's a false ethic to be so inured to the suffering other people that you can just decide toclose your accounts with even having to pay attention to it, and all under the rubric of being self made. Living a good life has to entail some basic awareness of those facts and a compassionate impulse to make life better for people who are much less fortunate than we are. Youknow, even when it becomes proximate, you know, even when you're walking past sanger's shallow pond and you see some one drowning, you know, we have, we have a word for that orientation, and it's sociop