Is America Falling Apart?

battalion are underpaid but they go through an act of liking their work, the open markets are luscious when esculent color, the fellowship is to a greater extent important than the stat, the human condition is humorously accepted. (297) The quality of life has nothing to do with the total of brand names. What matters is talk, family, cheap wine in the open air, the wresting of minimal sweetness out of the long-known bitterness of living. (297) American individualism, on the face of it an admirable philosophy, whishes to manifest itself in independence of the community. You dont share things in common you have your own things. A familys strength is signalized by its possessions. Herein lies a paradox. For the proclivity for possessions must eventually mea dependence on possessions. (298)New appetites are invented what to the European are bizarre luxuries become, to the American, unembellished necessities. 298) It is not right that men and women should fear to go on the streets a t nights, and that they should sometimes fear the jurisprudence as much as criminals. Both of whom sometimes look like a mirror images of each other. (301) The wealth qualification for the aspiring politician is taken for granted a governmental system consecrated to the promotion of personal wealth in a few selected areas will never act for the human race good.The time has come, nevertheless, for citizens to demand, from their government, a measure of socializationthe provision of amenities for the many, of which adequate state pensions and sickness benefits, as well as nationalized transport, should be priorities. (302) I come to America as to a country more simulation than depressing. The future of mankind is being worked out there on a scale typically Americanvast, dramatic, almost apocalyptical. I brave the brutality and the guilt in order to be in on the scene. I shall be back. (302)