Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it. |
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it. |
We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. |