And now, for something completely different

(Preamble: Have tackled Cornel West's "Democracy Matters", mostly because the person who lent it to me said they couldn't get through it due to the $10 words, and I took up the challenge on their behalf. Also, he wasn't part of the reading I did at uni, although probably ought to have been.)
Professor West shares with us a truly fabulous quote from Emerson which you're free to use in whatever context seems most fitting:

"...my quarrel with America, of course, was that the geography was sublime, but the men are not."

'Nuff said.