A great division among the American people has begun - gradually, slowly - to take shape: not beween Republicans and Democrats, and not between "conservatives" and "liberals,", but between people who are still unthinking believers in technology and in economic determinism and people who are not. The non-believers may or may not be conscious or convinced traditionalists: but they are men and women who have begun not only to question but, here and there, to oppose pubicly the increasing pouring of cement over land, the increasing inflation of automobile traffic of every kind, the increasing acceptance of noiseome machinery ruling their lives. Compared with this division the present "debates" about taxes and rates and political compaigns are nothing but ephermeral froth blowing here and there on little waves, atop the great oceanic tides of history."
-John Lukacs (emphasis mine).
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