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Simon and Garfunkel - 'America'
I've been 'looking for America' for at least the last 30 years. Sadly, she seems to have gradually morphed into something almost unrecognizable to me.
My observation of the change somewhat resembles the watching of a film in slow motion showing the metamorphosis of a beautiful butterfly - RUNNING BACKWARD! - B. Steadman
“When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint . . . . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold. . . . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, 'Democracy in America Volume 2'
I've been 'looking for America' for at least the last 30 years. Sadly, she seems to have gradually morphed into something almost unrecognizable to me.
My observation of the change somewhat resembles the watching of a film in slow motion showing the metamorphosis of a beautiful butterfly - RUNNING BACKWARD! - B. Steadman
“When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint . . . . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold. . . . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, 'Democracy in America Volume 2'