“Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.” HumansAmericaDiesImaginationHuman BeingsAnimalCitiesWorstHolesCapitalistPrimitiveWoundedJungleSlumsInner CityWounded Animal Book:Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West Source: Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West
“But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the most charming and cultured people.” PeopleKindLittlesStatesShowsAmericaUnderstandingUnitedUnited StatesWorstConsciousEuropePrimitiveCharmingSpainPeasantsSuperstitiousDesolationDesertedOasis Author:Aleister Crowley