American culture’s forward orientation is the pioneering ethos made into art.

Evidence

This exhortation to discount the present for the future has therefore been a particular, though not peculiar, aspect of American popular culture. It is, in a trenchant phrase by Horace Kallen (1950: 78), “the doctrine and discipline of pioneering made art.” — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 678

Categorization

• DEFINE: Kallen’s phrase crisply distills the American ideology of future-orientation that Carey assembles throughout the chapter.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 678
• XREF: connects to: Spirituals constitute the foundational American literary tradition — , A Year of World Stories, 5146