america, n.All

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.

America is a country that is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac nation. Land of face lifts.

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

America is a country to which one might possess an ill forebodings as to its future system.

America is a country that wants to do nothing but bring other lands democracy and white bread... to transplant the American dream of freedom, achievement, hyperacidity, affluence, flatulence, technology, and tension, the inalienable right to an early coronary sitting at your desk while plotting to stab your boss in the back.

America is a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

America is a country impressive for the way parents obey their children.

America is a big herd of cattle being led to the marketplace, not to be sold, but to do the buying.