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America’s aesthetic has always had to do with having “more.” And given our vast resources, habitable landscape and culture of plenty, we never paused to reflect on what this meant — we just kept on going like the Energizer bunny.
Now, thanks to terrorism, recession and war, the pillars of American optimism are wavering. New words like “sub-prime,” “derivatives” and “ponzi” have been added to our lexicon, the earth has shifted and all we have is what FDR called “heedless self-interest”: more distrust, less money.
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