"Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic."

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On the future of the U.S., or of Western civilization in general, I tend to be quite pessimistic. I would say that today I see most of the symptoms of societies on the brink of collapse, not just in the U.S., but in the tightly interconnected societies of Western civilization - now essentially world civilization.

— Arthur Demarest