A disconcerting aspect of our time is that we clo not<br >know what is happening to USRapiddrastic change<br >means the intrusion of the future into the present with<br >the result that the present has become as unpredictable<br >as the futureWe do not know whether the present<br >crisis is an ending or a beginningwhether we are tie<br >scending or ascending<br >Increasingly we are being separated from our past<br >We are a different people living in a different country<br >and we know that we shall become more different as<br >time passesThere is a vague fear that even if we man<br >age to solve all our problems we shall be less than what<br >we have beenWe shall merely survive<br >Yet amidst the turmoil and dismay it is startling to<br >discover how many vital things have not changed in<br >AmericaAmerica is still the best country for the corn<br >