Historically the American people have always yearned mightily for leadership and have consistently mistrusted and maligned it whenever it appeared.
“Three immense forces, Heilbroner contends, transformed the Distant Past into Yesterday — science, capitalism and the revolutionary belief that people might become masters of their own fates. For the first time, mankind saw the future as a beckoning prospect. The growth of technology and science, in particular, rapidly transformed the world for the better — a process that everyone assumed would stretch forever into the future.”
J. G. Ballard | “Anything Could Happen”