Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.
In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.
America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.
America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.
The world map looks smaller than ever before.
We're only as big as our experiences.
The longer we were in it, the smaller it seemed to get.
The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.
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