![]() ![]() “ Americans live in a society of replacement parts - in theory anyone can become President or sanitation inspector. ![]() They believe in the future as if it were a religion they believe that there is nothing they cannot accomplish, that solutions wait somewhere for all problems, like brides.” Americans see history as a straight line and themselves standing at the cutting edge of it as representatives for all mankind. The national myth is that of creativity and progress, of a steady climbing upward into power and prosperity, both for the individual and for the country as a whole. “ Americans ignore history, for to them everything has always seemed new under the sun. ![]() ![]() In a few minutes it would be over: the bombs, released by an invisible pilot with incomprehensible intentions, would leave only the debris and the dead behind.” For the other people the war would come one day out of a clear blue sky. “ To one people the war would appear each day, compressed between advertisements and confined to a small space in the living room the explosion of bombs and the cries of the wounded would become the background accompaniment to dinner. ![]()
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