A Rucksack Rumination
An essay by Jeff Darren Muse
One of the generalities most often noted about Americans is that we are a restless, a dissatisfied, a searching people. We bridle and buck under failure, and we go mad with dissatisfaction in the face of success. We spend our time searching for security, and hate it when we get it.
—John Steinbeck, Paradox and Dream
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