The Two Parts of the American Personality

They are hard to describe, but I would call them the Social and the Antisocial - or the Constructive and the Destructive. And I can easily detect both of them, in myself.

I think this explains the Trump presidency. When Americans, for reasons they did not understand themselves, elected a man who was unfit for the office, by any standard. He was like them, not capable of building a better world, but well-suited to destroying it.

This process, of building an empire, and then destroying it (or letting it destroy itself) - has happened before, and will no doubt happen again.