On a relative measure, this is the greatest time and place in human history. Truth is people are people. It is the founders and the constitution that set this nation on its current path. There are more free, peaceful, healthy nations today (and hence, people around the globe), because of America. Americans are people like any other. Striving for freedom, looking for love in friends and family, and desiring to have good triumph over evil, both internally and externally. It is our freedom to innovate, share our ideas, and explore our spiritual side on our own terms, that make us great. Americans are probably not the happiest people in the world, but I think much of that is because we are being informed by the likes of this author. I have heard all my life that men are bad, the U.S. Government does bad things to the rest of the world, religion is bad, and Americans are bad. I have also heard that criminals need our sympathy, social programs will solve our problems, sex all the time is good, material things are good, and to look for happiness externally. Freedom is not always easy to handle. When our dark side causes problems, we have only ourselves to blame. And that can be difficult at times.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/10/13/one_nation_under_illusion/
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