It Is By Losing Himself In The

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.

The Ideal Of Having A Real Job That You Risk Your Soul In And Make Good Or Be Damned, Belongs To The Heroic Age Of Capitalist Enterprise, Imbued With Self-righteous Beliefs About Hard Work, Thrift, And Public Morals. Such An Ideal Might Still Have Been Mentioned In Public Fifty Years Ago; In Our Era Of Risk-insured Semimonopolies And Advertised Vices It Would Be Met With A Ghastly Stillness.

The Important Thing About Travel In Foreign Lands Is That It Breaks The Speech Habits And Makes You Blab Less, And Breaks The Habitual Space-feeling Because Of Different Village Plans And Different Landscapes. It Is Less Important That There Are Different Mores, For You Counteract These With Your Own Reaction-formations.

The Family Is The American Fascism.

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.