The Institutional Scene In Which American Man

The Cities Of Italy Are Now Deluged With Droves Of These Creatures [tour Groups], For They Never Separate, And You See Them, Forty In Number, Pouring Along A Street With Their Director - Now In Front, Now At The Rear, Circling Them Like A Sheep Dog - And Really The Process Is As Like Herding As May Be.

America Has Been A Land Of Dreams. A Land Where The Aspirations Of People From Countries Cluttered With Rich, Cumbersome, Aristocratic, Ideological Pasts Can Reach For What Once Seemed Unattainable. Here They Have Tried To Make Dreams Come True. Yet Now... We Are Threatened By A New And Particularly American Menace. It Is Not The Menace Of Class War, Of Ideology, Of Poverty, Of Disease, Of Illiteracy, Or Demagoguery, Or Of Tyranny, Though These Now Plague Most Of The World. It Is The Menace Of Unreality.

Disagreement Produces Debate But Dissent Produces Dissension.

The Mind Is A Vagrant Thing.... Thinking Is Not Analogous To A Person Working In A Laboratory Who Invents Something On Company Time.

Our Discontent Begins By Finding False Villains Whom We Can Accuse Of Deceiving Us. Next We Find False Heroes Whom We Expect To Liberate Us. The Hardest, Most Discomfiting Discovery Is That Each Of Us Must Emancipate Himself.