America

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Excerpt: A quote from a recent Atlantic blog post named Immoderation Nation caught my eye, “extreme behavior of all kinds is both our glory and our potential downfall.” It is hard to dispute such a statement, given the American propensity to take all matters to an extreme.  Why is this the case? The pioneering mentality has to do with a lot of it: the wild-wild-west drive where it’s all or nothing.  The collective mentality of a people where the land was wrangled from the supposedly savage Indians; followed by flights with its numerous foes: the Spanish, the French, and the British. …