American Nightmares - by T. Greer - The Scholar's Stage

Wang Huning and Alexis de Tocqueville’s Dark Vision of the Future

THERE IS A PASSAGE in Democracy in America that has appeared in many of my essays.[1] "In the United States,” Tocqueville reports, “there is nothing the human will despairs of attaining through the free action of the combined power of individuals." Tocqueville contrasts his vision of the American yeoman with the stereotypical “inhabitant of some European nations,” who “sees himself as a kind of settler, indifferent to the fate of the place he inhabits… enjoying what he has as a tenant, without any feeling of ownership or thought of possible improvement.” In contrast, the stereotyped American…

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