Jonathan Alligood’s Reviews > A Failure of Nerve (Revised Edition): Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix > Status Update

My thesis here is that the climate of contemporary America has become so chronically anxious that our society has gone into an emotional regression that is toxic to well-defined leadership. This regression … has lowered people's pain thresholds, with the result that comfort is valued over the rewards of facing challenge, symptoms come in fads, and cures go in and out of style like clothing fashions.