Americans

May 1, 2006 | Share/Save

"It is one of my firmest and most sacred beliefs… that the government of the United States, in both its legislative and its executive arm, is ignorant, incompetent, corrupt, and disgusting… that the administration of justice in the Republic is stupid, dishonest, and against all reason and equity… that the foreign policy of the United States — its habitual manner of dealing with other nations, whether friend or foe — is hypocritical, disingenuous, knavish, and dishonorable… that the American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages… " - HL Mencken, On Being An American

"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." - William S. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with Daniel Odier: Prisoners of the Earth Come Out, pub. A.D. 1969