Compare this to the past. Here’s Frederick Lewis Allen again, writing about life in 1900: The majority of Americans were less likely than their descendants to be dogged by that frightening sense of insecurity which comes from being jostled by forces—economic, political, international—beyond one’s personal ken. Their horizons were close to them. Their horizons were close to them. In modern times our horizons cover every nation, culture, political regime, and economy in the world. There are so many good things that come from that.
