I suspect you’re right, though, about too many Americans thinking they can still live beyond their means. Historian Andrew Bacevich sees in this a distorted definition of freedom that is inordinately tied to consumerism. We can see echoes of this in Bush’s call for Americans to go shopping as a response to the terrorists who allegedly hated us for our freedoms.
I suspect you’re right, though, about too many Americans thinking they can still live beyond their means. Historian Andrew Bacevich sees in this a distorted definition of freedom that is inordinately tied to consumerism. We can see echoes of this in Bush’s call for Americans to go shopping as a response to the terrorists who allegedly hated us for our freedoms.