吸收美国的危机不仅是经济或政治危机；更深层次的事情正在席卷整个土地上，这种雇佣和功利主义态度对人们的实际幸福感表示不同理，这种态度几乎没有同理心，这种态度忽略了想象力和思想，对知识无关紧要的品牌热情。
(The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for people's actual well-being, that dismisses imagination and thought, branding passion for knowledge as irrelevant.)