The Family Is The American Fascism.

It Then Becomes Necessary To Stop Short And Make A Choice: Either/or. Either One Drifts With Their Absurd System Of Ideas, Believing That This Is The Human Community. Or One Dissents Totally From Their System Of Ideas And Stands As A Lonely Human Being. (but Luckily One Notices That The Others Are In The Same Crisis And Making The Same Choices.)

It Is By Losing Ourselves In Inquiry, Creation & Craft That We Become Something. Civilization Is A Continual Gift Of Spirit: Inventions, Discoveries, Insight, Art. We Are Citizens, As Socrates Would Have Said, & We Have It Available As Our Own.

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.

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.

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.