Americans see history as a straight line and themselves standing at the cutting edge of it as representatives for all mankind. 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.
ATTRIBUTION:
Frances Fitzgerald (b. 1940), U.S. journalist and author. Fire in the Lake, pt. 1, ch. 1 (1972).
