In his last presidential speech before retirement, Dr Jensen said society’s shift towards ”deadly individualism” had been driven by material wealth and technological mastery.
The cost of individualism, and the shift to self-love, had consequences for the quality of our community, family life and how we treat death. That was evident in the choice of ”our swan song of this generation”, Frank Sinatra’s classic I Did It My Way, Dr Jensen said in his speech, titled ”Last Words”.
”It seems that we do not need each other as once we did. Nor do we need God. To think that a person is so proud of the phrase ‘I did it my way’ that they would use it as a summary of their life’s achievement reveals an astounding moral ineptitude, a sort of vulgar egotism.”
