Tuesday, 30 November 2010

John Steinbeck on the decline of the USA

....made me think of the current political situation and the anger of the tea-baggers:

"Americans, over invested in material toys and saddled with debt are bored, anguished and discontented and no longer capable of the heroism which rescued them from the terrifying poverty of the Great Depression. And underneath it all, building energies like gases in a corpse. When that explodes, I tremble to think what will be the result." John Steinbeck to his editor Pascal Covici, 1960.

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