It Then Becomes Necessary To Stop Short

Few Great Men Could Pass Personnel.

The Irony Is That In Our Decades, The Combination Of Rationalism, Asceticism, And Individualism (the So-called Protestant Ethic) Has Produced Precisely The System Of Boondoggling, Luxury-consumption, And Status.

Wrong' Training Can Be A Very Innocent Thing. Consider A Father Who Allows His Child To Read Good Books. That Child May Soon Cease To Watch Television Or Go To The Movies, Nor Will He Eventually Read Book-of-the-month Club Selections, Because They Are Ludicrous And Dull. As A Young Man, Then, He Will Effectually Be Excluded From All Of Madison Avenue And Hollywood And Most Of Publishing, Because What Moves Him Or What He Creates Is Quite Irrelevant To What Is Going On: It Is Too Fine. His Father Has Brought Him Up As A Dodo.

There Is Such A Thing As Food And Such A Thing As Poison. But The Damage Done By Those Who Pass Off Poison As Food Is Far Less Than That Done By Those Who Generation After Generation Convince People That Food Is Poison.

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.