http://www.steve-olson.com/when-did-america-become-a-nation-of-frightened-wimps/

He’s right, we are pussies. Americans… we’re supposed to be hard-core, how in the fuck did we become such a bunch of fucking pussies, America?
If you really think about it, we’re supposed to be descended from all the people in Europe too crazy and reckless to stay behind. That’s our shared genetic heritage. Chinese people have yellow skin and almond eyes and strait black hair. Norwegians have blond hair and blue eyes and can’t pronounce the word “the”. AMERICANS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE BRAVE.
Our ancestors got on wooden boats or steamers or rafts and braved unknown terrors to start a new life, because they were tired of people telling them what to do all day. Our shared genetic heritage is the “FUCK THIS SHIT MENTALITY” Thats what fueled manifest destiny. There were families in the 1790s that, when another family moved in within 10 miles of them, were like “fuck this we’re heading west again”. In the hills of Kentucky and later, the plains, if you had 10 people within the same amount of square miles, the colonials started feeling “crowded”.
Somewhere along the way we lost that; and it wasn’t a gradual thing either. It all happened within the last fifty years… cultural forces are shaping our behavior. Breaking our spirit. And directing all of the volatile personality quirks that ARE our American Heritage, into innocuous pursuits. We are under educated and constantly being fed television and news stories that inspire anti-intellectualism, fear and dependence on the federal government.
That is why we all want to drive our cars into telephone poles, and murder our bosses, and burn down city hall, and shoot up our classrooms, or offices. We are being forced to go against our programing. We aren’t being allowed to live the way we don’t even know we want to live.