Life itself in American terms is entirely mechanistic. The sense of 'I' in America belongs entirely to the physical level of existence. The primitive American mind can only superficially be compared to a young mind. The American mind is a feature of the regressive society to which I have already referred. A recent medical survey in the United States showed that 75 per cent of young American women are without strong sexual feeling and instead of satisfying their libido they seek pleasure narcissistically in exhibitionism, vanity and the cult of fitness and health in a sterile sense.
American women are characteristically frigid and materialistic.
The man who 'has his way' with an American girl is under a material obligation to her. In cases of divorce American law overwhelmingly favours the woman. American women will divorce readily enough when they see a better bargain. It is frequently the case in America that a woman will be married to one man but already 'engaged' to a future husband, the man she plans to marry after a profitable divorce. In Italy it is a phenomenon which is rapidly developing in these post-war years and is considered by most people, if not enthusiastically, at least as something natural.