Americans are not Good, at Being Good to Each Other

This is a huge deficiency, and one they do not want to be aware of. One of the many deficiencies they do not want to be aware of.

How on earth did they get this way? Or, to be more practical, what can we do about it now? The we in this case, being the Americans who know about this, and want to fix it.

We can say America is in bad shape, and get plenty of agreement about this, from all kinds of Americans. But getting more explicit, is impossible - one of the basic deficiencies I just spoke of.

Americans do not want to think about many things, including their most pressing problems. They would rather do almost anything else - than think about their problems. These appear insoluble to them, and best left alone.

Perhaps this is a good place to start - with the belief that today's problems are too big to be solved. No one will admit to this, but we can see this is what they really believe, in their unconscious lives.

In fact, denial of the unconscious, is one of the symptoms of our times. Recognizing the unconscious, makes things too complicated - and they crave simplicity.

They also believe that people are basically good - when it has been obvious for thousands of years, that people are both good and bad. And that this is a basic fact of human nature.

In short, people have become stupid - but think they have become smart.