© The Kennedy CenterThe Debris of History© unknown"The soft, the complacent the self-satisfied societies will be swept away with the debris of history" - John Fitzgerald KennedyExtracted from:Farewell America"The American loses no opportunity to acquire wealth. It was originally published in French in 1968, but it was unavailable in the United States for many years. For the United States, it was the businessman!While other nations might have chosen wisdom, beauty, saintliness, military glory, bravery or asceticism as their popular divinities, the United States chose the civilization of gain. Money is the only real measure of human beings and things, and American society, while classless, is nothing more than a graph of economic levels. With Eisenhower, the United States was content to spend eight years in an armchair.