Published April 16, 2021 at 9:31 AM PDT mintchipdesigns Pixabay It's not just that people seem to rise to positions of power and importance despite their moral failings. In some examples, it seems like the moral failings are part of a person's brand, seen as a positive instead of a negative. Did we lower our standards? Do we have any standards? Cultural anthropologist Grant McCracken thinks we should; he lays out the case and the standards in his book Tags