First Response, "Utopia Achieved"

This essay seems to me like a contradiction. There's times when she talks like she doesn't like the Americans and yet in the same paragraph, she'll around and act like she likes Americans.

"This self-indulgence" (pg 118) - self-indulgence to me is a bad term. Same paragraph, " I say this to illustrate not only the indulgence, but the self-publicizing, self-justificatory violence of this society..." and yet continuing the same sentence she seems like it's all a good thing, "that triumphyalist violence which forms part of all successful revolutions."

She does this again on the next page (119), "It is this overall dynamism,this dynamic of the abolition of differences which is so exciting and which poses, in Tocqueville's words, a nw problem for the understanding of human societies. It is, moreover, extraordinary to see how little the Americans have changed in the last two centurie - much less than European societies." The first sentence is bad, and yet she turns around makes it sound good in the second sentence. Seems to me it's contradictory.

While reading this essay, I got two things. The way she writes tells me she's from Europe - however, I got that she knew an awful lot about America and told alot about us, and didn't give as much information about Europe - so is she really from Europe or just ranting cause she's pissed off at the US? And the other thing is like I was saying earlier, this whole essay is a huge contradiction. She say something that is bad about the US but at the very end of her essay she says, "Let us grant this country admiration it deserves and open our eyes to the absurdit of some of our own customs." She rants and raves about how bad different things about the US are bad, and yet she says they need to grant the US their admiration? Seems a bit fishy to me.