American Exceptionalism: Delusion and Illusion
9 min readApr 1, 2019
I grew up believing in three grand illusions all Americans are subjected to in the course of traversing childhood: Manifest Destiny, American Exceptionalism, and the American Dream. I was a typical true believer, and probably for that reason, I first came to doubt, then question, and finally see them all from a different perspective than those who introduced, spread and propagated these concepts to me…