If You Choose The Lesser Of Two

A Citizenship Of Wholesale Delegation And Abdication To Public And Private Power Systems, Such As Prevails Now, Makes Such Periodic Checks As Elections Little More Than Rituals.

Looking At Virtual Reality Through Computer Screens, Video Game Screens, And Above All Television Screens Is A Denial Of Personality Development. It's A Denial Of Socialization, Of Expansion Of Vocabulary, Of Interaction With Real Human Beings.

The True Danger Is The Expansion Of Empire And The Huge Diversion Of Public Budgets Overseas At The Neglect Of Domestic Necessities, Including, For Example, A Major Public Works Program To Employ Millions Of People. The Democrats Want That. The Republicans May Be Pressured From Back Home To Want It, But It Hasn't Happened Yet Under The Obama Administration.

Let It Not Be Said By A Future, Forlorn Generation That We Wasted And Lost Our Great Potential Because Our Despair Was So Deep We Didn't Even Try, Or Because Each Of Us Thought Someone Else Was Worrying About Our Problems.

The Whole Story Of Human History Is: The Blasphemy Of Today Is The Commonplace Of Tomorrow.