Few Great Men Could Pass Personnel.

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.

The Stultifying Effect Of The Movies Is Not That The Children See Them But That Their Parents Do, As If Hollywood Provided A Plausible Adult Recreation To Grow Up Into.

American Society Has Tried So Hard And So Ably To Defend The Practice And Theory Of Production For Profit And Not Primarily For Use That Now It Has Succeeded In Making Its Jobs And Products Profitable And Useless.

To Consider Powerful Souls As If They Were A Useful Public Resource Is Quite Foreign To Our Customs. In A Small Sense It Is Undemocratic, For It Assumes That Some People Really Know Better In A Way That Must Seem Arbitrary To Most. In A Large Sense It Is Certainly Democratic, In That It Makes The Great Man Serve As A Man.

When A Village Ceases To Be A Community, It Becomes Oppressive In Its Narrow Conformity. So One Becomes An Individual And Migrates To The City. There, Finding Others Like-minded, One Re-establishes A Village Community. Nowadays Only New Yorkers Are Yokels.