Standing, Standing, Standing - Why Do I

As Individuals And As A Nation, We Now Suffer From Social Narcissism. The Beloved Echo Of Our Ancestors, The Virgin America, Has Been Abandoned. We Have Fallen In Love With Our Own Image, With Images Of Our Making, Which Turn Out To Be Images Of Ourselves.

We Suffer Primarily Not From Our Vices Or Our Weaknesses, But From Our Illusions. We Are Haunted, Not By Reality, But By Those Images We Have Put In Their Place.

The Traveler Was Active; He Went Strenuously In Search Of People, Of Adventure, Of Experience. The Tourist Is Passive; He Expects Interesting Things To Happen To Him. He Goes 'sight-seeing.'

A Sign Of Celebrity Is That His Name Is Often Worth More Than His Services.

Jefferson Refused To Pin His Hopes On The Occasional Success Of Honest And Unambitious Men; On The Contrary, The Great Danger Was That Philosophers Would Be Lulled Into Complacence By The Accidental Rise Of A Franklin Or A Washington. Any Government Which Made The Welfare Of Men Depend On The Character Of Their Governors Was An Illusion.