Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.
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Americans want to be exposed to the opportunities that a changing world can offer.
It is the American way to reward ability.
We don't live with the community of yesteryear. And we don't enjoy the public services Europeans do. So we turn to the market. Once we do, we find that service providers raise the standards of personal life, so that we come to feel we need them to live our 'best' personal lives.
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.
Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way.
I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.
We, as Americans, do our level best to avoid being cruel to one another; we're led out of a diverse nation to come together and learn how to live with one another in a way that elevates everyone and our way of life. We've tried mightily to renew and imagine - imagine anew what it means to be free, what it means to be fair.
The way Americans understand and treat other peoples almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble.
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