wodneswynn:

gouachevalier:

mir-nicht:

“There is not, I think, a single country in the civilized world where less attention is paid to philosophy than in the United States” – Alexis de Tocqueville.

It’s important to point out that it’s actually worse. It’s completely reasonable for him to expect most Americans to have read de Tocqueville because de Tocqueville’s most famous work is deadass a very important work on American politics literally called ‘Democracy in America’.