Comedy Deflates The Sense Precisely So That

We Live Increasingly In A System In Which Little Direct Attention Is Paid To The Object, The Function, The Program, The Task, The Need; But Immense Attention To The Role, The Procedure, Prestige, And Profit.

Humankind Is Innocent, Loving, And Creative, You Dig? It's The Bureaucracies That Create The Evil, That Make Honor And Community Impossible, And It's The Kids Who Really Take It In The Groin.

Thwarted, Or Starved, In The Important Objects Proper To Young Capacities, The Boys And Young Men Naturally Find Or Invent Deviant Objects For Themselves. ... Their Choices And Inventions Are Rarely Charming, Usually Stupid, And Often Disastrous; We Cannot Expect Average Kids To Deviate With Genius. But On The Other Hand, The Young Men Who Conform To The Dominant Society Become For The Most Part Apathetic, Disappointed, Cynical And Wasted.

In The Modern World, We Americans Are The Old Inhabitants. We First Had Political Freedom, High Industrial Production, An Economy Of Abundance.

A Successful Revolution Establishes A New Community. A Missed Revolution Makes Irrelevant The Community That Persists. And A Compromised Revolution Tends To Shatter The Community That Was, Without An Adequate Substitute.