[单项选择] What our society suffers from most today is the absence of consensus about what the society and life in it ought to be. Such consensus cannot be gained from society’’s present stage, or from fantasies about what it ought to be. For that the present is too close and too diversified, and the future too uncertain, to make believable claims about it. A consensus in the present hence can be achieved only through a shared understanding of the past, as Homer’’s epics informed those who lived centuries later what it meant to be Greek, and by what images and ideals they were to live their lives and organize their societies. Most societies derive consensus from a long history, a language all their own, a common religion, common ancestry. The myths by which they live are based on all of these. But the United States is a country of immigrants, coming from a great variety of nations. Lately, it has been emphasized that an asocial (不合群的) narcissistic (自我陶醉的) personality has become characteris
A. bring about the uniformity of their culture
B. diminish their great individual differences
C. regain the feelings of social values and morale
D. avoid the sense of being isolated and anxious

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