Via Scott Rosenbergs blogg fant jeg musikeren Brian Enos svært sindige artikkel om europeeres syn på USA. Like før USA trer inn i sin rolle som en imperiemakt av det gamle, velkjente slaget er det tankevekkende å lese dette: …since Sept. 11, that vision has been eclipsed by a suspicious, introverted America, a country-sized version of that peculiarly American form of ghetto: the gated community. A gated community is defensive. Designed to keep the “others” out, it dissolves the rich web of society into a random clustering of disconnected individuals. It turns paranoia and isolation into a lifestyle.