"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy...search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

Mirroring much more eloquently my characterization and sentiment of today's conservative "I got mine, now screw you" generation was the economist John Kenneth Galbraith who wrote how "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."