An Alibi Society

Living in an Alibi Society: a Catalogue of Pretensions.   

Nicholas Stacy 1988

1. This is a social critique in which the author reveals a society debilitated by the extensive use of alibis, and now anxiously searching for durable values. 
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3. He describes an alibi society as a collective state of mind for finding excuses for equivocation, for taking or not taking action, or finding reasons for failure. 
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5. He explains the use of alibis by examining their source in widely different areas - education, class, manners, cowardice, intellectuality and the professions.
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7. The author traces the history of those ideas in relation to the rise and fall of the industrial spirit and their impact on contemporary thought ....
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9. Edited from source.
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11. The book was published in 1988. 
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13. As a then social psychologist, I advised more than several people at odds with government and large scale business.
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15. Some of them read passages which aided them in their planning.  

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