Are we a culture that cheats? According to author David Callahan’s book, ” The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead;” He believes that we are. This book was released in 2004 and I came across it recently in a bookstore. This is not a typical book exploring infidelity, but rather the fierce need to compete in order to survive the systems we’ve created.

There is a belief in society that those who have reached a high level of status, must have done so deceptively.

Whenever one is living outside of their true and authentic self, there will always be an egoic and narcissistic need to desire the illusion. Suddenly what we have and who we are is not good enough. Our wealth and prosperity is measured by others. Our self-worth is defined by numbers, symbols, and things…material objects that we, as a collective consciousness has ascribed worth to.