The Myth Of Unending Consumption Has Taken

Observations Of The Sickening Effect Of Programmed Environments Show That People In Them Become Indolent, Impotent, Narcissistic And Apolitical. The Political Process Breaks Down, Because People Cease To Be Able To Govern Themselves; They Demand To Be Managed.

Latin America Can No Longer Tolerate Being A Haven For United States Liberals Who Cannot Make Their Point At Home, An Outlet For Apostles Too "apostolic" To Find Their Vocation As Competent Professionals Within Their Own Community. The Hardware Salesman Threatens To Dump Second-rate Imitations Of Parishes, Schools And Catechisms -- Out-moded Even In The United States -- All Around The Continent. The Traveling Escapist Threatens Further To Confuse A Foreign World With His Superficial Protests, Which Are Not Viable Even At Home.

Most People Acquire Most Of Their Knowledge Outside School, And In School Only Insofar As School, In A Few Rich Countries, Has Become Their Place Of Confinement During An Increasing Part Of Their Lives.

Leadership Does Not Depend On Being Right.

School Prepares For The Alienating Institutionalization Of Life By Teaching The Need To Be Taught.