Notice The Difference Between What Happens When

Advertising Is A Symbol-manipulating Occupation

Animals Struggle With Each Other For Food Or For Leadership, But They Do Not, Like Human Beings, Struggle With Each Other For Thatthat Stands For Food Or Leadership: Such Things As Our Paper Symbols Of Wealth (money, Bonds, Titles), Badges Of Rank To Wear On Our Clothes, Or Low-number License Plates, Supposed By Some People To Stand For Social Precedence. For Animals The Relationship In Which One Thing Stands For Something Else Does Not Appear To Exist Except In Very Rudimentary Form.

Republicans Are People Who, If You Were Drowning 50 Feet From Shore, Would Throw You A 25-foot Rope And Tell You To Swim The Other 25 Feet Because It Would Be Good For Your Character. Democrats Would Throw You A Hundred-foot Rope And Then Walk Away Looking For Other Good Deeds To Do.

Patriotic Societies Seem To Think That The Way To Educate School Children In A Democracy Is To Stage Bigger And Better Flag-saluting.

Language Is A Unifying Instrument Which Binds People Together. When People Speak One Language They Become As One, They Become A Society.