Peter. See my George F Kennan/Raymond Robbins:The Deep-Trait of American Psychology. From this viewpoint Kennan would totally disagree with your analysis. He would foresee the disaster that we are headed for due to the Deep Trait of American Psychology. We need to rethink who we were and who we are and as a result who we will be. Respectfully, Mike
Well stated. As you point out he was a man of his times, but in the diaries he portrays himself as a man with great distaste for modernity in most forms and waxes wistfully for the 19th century which isn’t scholarly at all. Since it is a diary and not history we can assume his true feelings about Czarist Russia were quite warm.
This is a really fascinating read - thank you!
Thanks. Alas, we can't check in with Kennan.
Peter. See my George F Kennan/Raymond Robbins:The Deep-Trait of American Psychology. From this viewpoint Kennan would totally disagree with your analysis. He would foresee the disaster that we are headed for due to the Deep Trait of American Psychology. We need to rethink who we were and who we are and as a result who we will be. Respectfully, Mike
Well stated. As you point out he was a man of his times, but in the diaries he portrays himself as a man with great distaste for modernity in most forms and waxes wistfully for the 19th century which isn’t scholarly at all. Since it is a diary and not history we can assume his true feelings about Czarist Russia were quite warm.