Quote: It exalts the personal qualities of inherent talent, self-centeredness, frantic energy, and aggressiveness.
Isn't this is exactly the basic qualities of those who established american constitution and its capitalistic foundations?
I see a generalization of a human setup by zone/state to a specialized functional (social-culture) aspect, and after certain realizations, we can entirely extract to generalize such behavior to another (way of living/ 'ism') specialized formations.
We can call it corrections.. but some may call it fallacies. The learning is more important here that falls back to fundamental religious/political setup that fails to energize such human behavior and guide the planet to a wonderful experience.
These quoted human characteristics are the fundamental issues of humanity that in the older years depicted them as evil/terrorists and now, upon taking valuable positions in a functional contemporary society, it becomes a categorized un-welcome behavior for the larger people.. cause, they hide under the other '-isms'[including political] they have established to live in, knowingly or unknowingly.
Bottom line.. only when we see such fallacies or get stumble upon such issues, we begin to take holistic views of such human/state political/social behavior. Misuse of power is overwhelmingly enjoyed by powerful humans and that is the same force that is driving to take a whole lot of entities around them, perhaps including a big state or civilization.
Also, we could categorize them as different states and orders of corruptions. Take it whichever way, there is this larger cultural value - religion/ism that these humans lay their foundation stones for moral values. That is where the grass roots lies.