...or maybe not, but it struck me as somehow connected to the previous post - anyway, here's William Vollmann in the latest
Bookforum, in a piece about the American ache to escape the grid:
"Were there such an animal as national character, then I might define an American as follows: longing for and half-expecting perfect freedom and happiness; disappointed by the authoritarian constraints of present necessity (which we'll call 'the grid'); unnerved by the conflict between aspiration and reality; uncertain whether to blame oneself or others for imperfection; ready to 'reinvent' oneself to achieve self-sufficiency, profit, or peace."
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