Comedy Is Something That We Can All

We Certainly Have At Present The Dismal Situation That The Most Imaginative Men Are Directed By A Group, The Top Managers, Who Are Among The Least.

When We Choose A Man To Beautify Our Towns, We Do Not Automatically Call On The Major Artists Of The World. ... We Now Lavishly Praise Frank Lloyd Wright, But We Never Made Any Community Use Of Him, Though He Longed For The Chance.

There Is The Dumb Silence Of Slumber Or Apathy... The Fertile Silence Of Awareness, Pasturing The Soul... The Silence Of Peaceful Accord With Other Persons Or Communion With The Cosmos.

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.

The Irony Is That In Our Decades, The Combination Of Rationalism, Asceticism, And Individualism (the So-called Protestant Ethic) Has Produced Precisely The System Of Boondoggling, Luxury-consumption, And Status.