Amid this din of complaint and trivial offense, how to know what really mattered, how to identify the true crisis when it came along?
— <p>Scott Anderson, <a href=“http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BH0VSPI?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=213733&amp;creative=393177&amp;creativeASIN=B00BH0VSPI&amp;linkCode=shr&amp;tag=cat0be5-20">Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East</a>.</p>
<p>And that’s just one of the problems associated with a culture of complaint, to borrow a phrase from <a href=“http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195076761?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=213733&amp;creative=393177&amp;creativeASIN=0195076761&amp;linkCode=shr&amp;tag=cat0be5-20">Robert Hughes</a>.</p>