ABSTRACT
These words are being written in an attempt to counteract any com pletely wrong interpretations of what now follows. I am intending to do the impossible. I am trying to say that I am fundamentally fond of a country and its people, that I feel close to it , and its national heritage. But at the same time, I wil l claim that there is something extraordinar ily alarming in the social fabric of the USA. And precisely because I feel so close, feel the country as so much of myself, it i s increasingly difficult to keep quiet and not express my concern.
