Jonathan Franzen on one of his character's emigration:
"He became another data point in the American experiment of self- government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable genes who fled the crowded Old World for the new continent; it was the people who didn't get along well with others."
Brilliantly stated; that quote identifies a significant root of today's culture and makes it easier to understand from where many of today's unfortunate core values stem...
Thursday, March 10, 2011
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And that is from whence we come...and continue to come. "Wretched refuse" that has built this fortress of liberty and may some day, alas, tear it down, as well. LYB
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