April 30, 2002
From the desk of Jane Galt:Very nice bit of writing
Very nice bit of writing from William Quick:
I do subscribe to the theory of American exceptionalism - except I don't believe it's a theory. I think it proves and reproves itself with every passing year. The America I know and love has retained the exceptional malleability and resilience it possessed from the very beginning, but it has also kept the bright, gleaming core of its constitutional bedrock, the ever-living heart of the dream that is also the spirit and bones of the republic.
I love America without fear or irony, her past, her amazing present, her incalculable future. She retains the magical ability to touch all who wish to come to her, and with her touch, make them American too. How can you separate the ideas and ideals from the people who burnish them bright every day, and have since the Founders first plucked them from the American soul and put them to now-faded, wrinkled parchment?
So if I am asked, do I think we are better because we are American, I say yes. Yes, I do. Damned right I do.
Deep in your heart, don't you, too?
To each his own, of course. . . but I'm awfully glad I'm American. And no, it's not the consumer goods -- it's the fact that we're almost the only place in the world where anyone can become one of us just by embracing the idea of America. That's pretty damn neat, if you ask me. Posted by Jane Galt at April 30, 2002 8:11 AM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound links