Обратно на убеждението, че американците са нанесли най-драматични поражения върху човечеството трябва да се включа с еретичната мисъл, йок. Преводачите са.
Целта оправдава риска..от древна Гърция насам (ако бе Рим, Никой да ме поправи).
За Бога, добре че целите се менят, че да свършим нещо!
Виж какво пише нашия (с Никой)герой Дракър за fellow Americans :

..The commitment to the mutual help was a response to the Depression. Indeed it was the specifically American response to the Depression. There was nothing like it on the other side (Europe), where the Depression evoke only suspicion, suliness, fear, and envy.

The American response to the Depression was the response to a natural disaster. As after an earthquake, a flood, a hurricane the community closed ranks and came to each other's rescue.

´´but the Depression was also a celebration of community, of shared values, of the joy of life, and of common hope - as a "natural disaster" tends to be for the defiant survivor..

..America was Promises - said Archibald MacLeish in a poem of 1939 that sold by the thousands, if not the hundred of thousands. What set America apart in the minds of Americans- and of Europeans - was precisely that it was not a "country" but a Constitution. The promises were political and social. The American dream is an ideal society. and the American genius is political..

..America is a territory, to be sure, and occupies a specific area on the earth's surface. But this place is the spatial location of principles held to be universally valid without which there would perhaps be an "America" but surely not "United States". America was and is the only country that has a politician for its public saint : Abraham Lincoln. There is only one geniunely native American art form : politics. And one becomes American citizen by swearing allegiance to abstract principles, to a "Constitution"

Pxl, онова което сме чели за Средновековието е писано я от ренесанец, я от романтик или някой следващ. Трябвал им е "враг", за да го катурят и върху мощите му да издигнат "нов идеал" (взех да звуча като партийна програма, пфу пфу..).Почни с Крайтън "Timeline", отзад са изброени ресурсите, които е ползвал.

PS: Съжалявам за шкембеджийницата. Ако живееше във Франция или която й да е столица в "другата" Европа, където хулиганстванията започват с разбиване прозорците на MacDonalds, щеше да си компенсиран от някакъв-комфорт-там..