Freedom Means The Opportunity To Be What

Each Living Art Object, Taken Out Of Its Native Habitat So We Can Conveniently Gaze At It, Is Like An Animal In A Zoo. Something About It Has Died In The Removal.

While The Focus In The Landscape Of Old World Cities Was Commonly Government Structures, Churches, Or The Residences Of Rulers, The Landscape And The Skyline Of American Cities Have Boasted Their Hotels, Department Stores, Office Buildings, Apartments, And Skyscrapers. In This Grandeur, Americans Have Expressed Their Booster Pride, Their Hopes For Visitors And New Settlers, And Customers, For Thriving Commerce And Industry.

America Has Been A Land Of Dreams. A Land Where The Aspirations Of People From Countries Cluttered With Rich, Cumbersome, Aristocratic, Ideological Pasts Can Reach For What Once Seemed Unattainable. Here They Have Tried To Make Dreams Come True. Yet Now... We Are Threatened By A New And Particularly American Menace. It Is Not The Menace Of Class War, Of Ideology, Of Poverty, Of Disease, Of Illiteracy, Or Demagoguery, Or Of Tyranny, Though These Now Plague Most Of The World. It Is The Menace Of Unreality.

An Image Is Not Simply A Trademark, A Design, A Slogan Or An Easily Remembered Picture. It Is A Studiously Crafted Personality Profile Of An Individual, Institution, Corporation, Product Or Service.

There Was A Time When The Reader Of An Unexciting Newspaper Would Remark, 'how Dull Is The World Today!' Nowadays He Says, 'what A Dull Newspaper!'