Shame was once thought to be a valuable societal tool. While not replacing laws, it often preempted the need for legislative enactments passed to curtail certain unwanted behaviors. A society without shame is one which prompts and necessitates a state of unlimited laws attempting to regulate the population. For, a society with traditions, including a general consensus regarding long-standing and known actions which have been deemed “shameful”, requires fewer laws, because self-regulation is performed through a community of unspoken and subtle repressions by mere looks, grimaces, and wordless expressions of contempt and condemnation. Here in America, sometime in the late Sixties and throughout the Seventies, a quiet movement developed, which was anathema to shame. We decided that the primary goal in raising children was to make sure that each child developed something obscurely indefinable and named it, “Self-Esteem”. Shame, of course, was considered an emotion which did not help to indoctrinate or inculcate this thing called “self-esteem”, and so a concurrent movement developed: The campaign to stamp out anything and everything which might trigger a child’s having a sense of shame. As a result, here we are today — everyone is a winner; nobody has more talent than anyone else; we are all the best that we can be; and whether you stink at something, you should still receive some sort of an award. Yet, despite all of the educational nonsense and malpractice (Note: during the...

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