Isn't the rise of the US based on breaking out of past stagnant structures, and using creative destruction to change how the world works? I don't know if the c

Isn't the rise of the US based on breaking out of past stagnant structures, and using creative destruction to change how the world works? I don't know if the creativity and opportunities to grow, try new things, be someone else would be the same if everyone were "just happy" ala Old Europe (in Rumsfeld's words). You might not be very happy, if the environment were everyone just being happy... But I guess the article is suggesting that people readjust their definition of what happy is.