Blog: Hope Over Experience

I found this through the New York Times and found it really interesting. Something striking—in the second "comment," someone says, "Americans are short on memory & long on optimism. So, like the proverbial divorcee, the homeseeker will choose hope over experience." I thought this really has its parallel in Leo's line from Paradise Lost, "We cancel our experience. This is an American habit."

"Slumburbia" by Timothy Egan

Posted February 17, 2010
by Whitney Eggers