But There Are A Number Of Attitudes

Our Job As Writers And Thinkers In The Time Is How To Bring About The Occasions That Let People Have That First-person Experience - Or The Metaphoric Experience That Allows Them To See Human Continuity As Opposed To Total Threat, Total Willingness To Do Violence.

Popular Culture Tells You That Schools And Parents Don't Know What's Going On, The Police Are Dogs, Politicians Are All Liars And Scum, And Any Crime That's Not Committed By The Mafia Is Done By The Cia.

You Can Meet A Young Person Who Goes To School And Is Really Enthusiastic, But If A Sufficiently Strong Personality Convinces Them That This Is A Waste Of Time, That Person Might Flunk Out.

If There's An Intellectual Highway, There's Also An Intellectual Subway.

Big Business, For All Its Lobbying, Is Often Put In Line By Investigative Reporting, Public Scandals And Multi-million-dollar Judgments In Court Against Those Who Put Products On The Market That Are Dangerous To Their Buyers.