"The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening"

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This paper discusses Thomas Wolfe's essay, "The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening," which was first published in 1976. The paper shows how Wolfe was one of the few to discredit the so-called awakenings as nothing but destructive movements. The paper discussses the content of the essay and the main crux of Wolfe's arguments presented in the essay.

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"In this conclusion, we may find a positive comment on the hippie generation and individualistic culture. The real concern of the author is not individualism per se but that this need to recognize "Me" may have gone too far. The desire to be somebody in itself cannot be considered dangerous but it results in serious isolation and unproductive activities some of which are actually anti-social, that is when this desire has gone too far and gives birth to serious of dangerous trends that simply erode the family and social values Americans had once been proud of."

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