If America is a ship, it looks a lot like it's sinking - financially, morally, spiritually. It's frightening.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.
Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.
If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.
The deep sea is a scary world.
That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.
As I look around, I get this sinking feeling that we're off track, that there's something sick in the soul of our country. I examine the fruit that's hanging on the tree of America, and I can see that it's rotting. And that concerns me deeply.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
If society is a ship, it appears to many to be firmly at anchor in moral waters. Perhaps this isn't so.
I am deeply concerned about America.
Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt.
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