Construed As A Means Instead Of An

The Playing Field Is More Sacred Than The Stock Exchange, More Blessed Than Capital Hill Or The Vaults Of Fort Knox. The Diamond And The Gridiron -- And, To A Lesser Degree, The Court, The Rink, The Track, And The Ring -- Embody The American Dream Of Eden.

The American Oligarchy Increasingly Has Less In Common With The American People Than It Does With The Equivalent Oligarchies In Germany Or Mexico Or Japan.

Except In A Few Well-publicized Instances (enough To Lend Credence To The Iconography Painted On The Walls Of The Media), The Rigorous Practice Of Rugged Individualism Usually Leads To Poverty, Ostracism And Disgrace. The Rugged Individualist Is Too Often Mistaken For The Misfit, The Maverick, The Spoilsport, The Sore Thumb.

Label Celebrity A Consumer Society's Most Precious Consumer Product, And Eventually It Becomes The Hero With A Thousand Faces, The Packaging Of The Society's Art And Politics, The Framework Of Its Commerce, And The Stuff Of Its Religion.

The Gentlemen Who Wrote The Constitution Were As Suspicious Of Efficient Government As They Were Wary Of Democracy, A "turbulence And A Folly" That Was Associated With The Unruly Ignorance Of An Urban Mob.