The Perversion of Everything

I've heard it said that a person's strengths and weaknesses are different aspects of the same attributes. Could that be true of societies? 

Hmm. If that's the case then we are seeing the dark side of the American Dream, the inversion of what it stood for. Look at the loss of hope and opportunity.

Correspondingly, our ability to evaluate ourselves honestly is taking a hit. We are as defensive as we are a failure, unable to own who we are.