Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We have larger apples and better cotton and faster and more beautiful machines. This makes us the greatest country in the world. Unemployment is a myth. Dissatisfaction is a fable. In preparatory school America is beautiful. It is the gem of the ocean and it is too bad. It is bad because people believe it all. Because they become indifferent. Because they marry and reproduce and vote and they know nothing.John Cheever
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The author of the quote “America is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world” is unknown, but he was likely a government official, perhaps a politician or a bureaucrat, who was speaking to a wide audience. In this quote, the speaker proclaims that America has become an unreal paradise. Just as a beautiful gem can be valued for its beauty rather than its value, so too does this speaker believe that America is magnificent because it lacks finer qualities like integrity and compassion. He also believes that Americans are superior to others because they are more concerned with material things than with what is truly important.
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