WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Beyond Blue Part Four: Better Living in the 21st Century. “It’s the pain of these personal setbacks and others like them plus a general sense that the strategies that used to work don’t work anymore that is behind much of the pessimism around us. This is real and it shouldn’t be denied or passed over in silence. But to see where the country as a whole is going, and to develop strategies both for general policy changes and for new personal strategies, we have to look beyond the pain: just as Americans in the last century had to look beyond the collapse of the family farm to see the big picture.”