America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
America is unique in the world. If you don't believe that, just ask someone from another country.
America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.
I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.
The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.