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Many Of The Rites Of Passage, Those Rituals Of Growing Up Found In Our Society, Are In The Form Of Such Comic, Practical Joking Affairs--which We Ignore In The Belief That They Possess No Deeper Significance. Yet It Is Precisely In Their Being Regarded As Unimportant That They Take On Importance. For In Them We Ritualize And Dramatize Attitudes Which Contradict And Often Embarrass The Sacred Values Which We Proclaim Through Our Solemn Ceremonies And Rituals Of Nationhood.

Without Involvement, There Is No Commitment. Mark It Down, Asterisk It, Circle It, Underline It." Stephen Covey "it Takes A Deep Commitment To Change And An Even Deeper Commitment To Grow.

Meaning Grows In The Mind, But The Shape And Form Of The Act Remains.

...and Yet I Am What They Think I Am.

When American Life Is Most American It Is Apt To Be Most Theatrical.