Have Americans become Epicurean Dependent Reductionists?

[mattctr]

Thought this was an interesting article: http://oliverdemille.com/2010/11/new-america/

Today, in contrast, we have become, to a large extent, a nation of followers...

In addition to unhealthy dependence on experts, we have been conditioned in the West to think like reductionists—only accepting logical, concrete and proven answers...

Add to this a third major characteristic of modern Americans: we are nearly all epicureans, meaning that we want life to feel good...

So then, most Americans are now Epicurean Dependent Reductionists: We want the experts to make everything good for us, we instinctively believe that they will, and we expect them to use science, logic, research, planning and whatever else is necessary to ensure that all goes well...

The Americans of the 1830s could easily be called Independent Cartesian Innovators...

We have reached a point in history when this generation must take a stand. If we want to pass on freedom and prosperity to our children and grandchildren, we need to move toward an attitude of innovation, independent thinking, responsibility, resiliency, and taking personal risk to make the world better...