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I Am In Favor Of [actions] That Have Authenticity, Roots, Originality, Verve, Balance, Taste, Communicativeness, Challenge, Relevance To Their Time-in Short, Things That Make Sense.

Hope Is Definitely Not The Same Thing As Optimism. It Is Not The Conviction That Something Will Turn Out Well, But The Certainty That Something Makes Sense, Regardless Of How It Turns Out.

A Person Who Has Been Seduced By The Consumer Value System, Whose Identity Is Dissolved In An Amalgam Of The Accouterments Trappings Of Mass Civilization, And Who Has No Roots In The Order Of Being, No Sense Of Responsibility For Anything Higher Than His Own Personal Survival, Is A Demoralized Person. The System Depends On This Demoralization, Deepens It, Is In Fact A Projection Of It Into Society.

We Ask Ourselves All Kinds Of Questions, Such As Why Does A Peacock Have Such Beautiful Feathers, And We May Answer That He Needs The Feathers To Impress A Female Peacock, But Then We Ask Ourselves, And Why Is There A Peacock? And Then We Ask, Why Is There Anything Living? And Then We Ask, Why Is There Anything At All? And If You Tell Some Advocate Of Scientism That The Answer Is A Secret, He Will Go White Hot And Write A Book. But It Is A Secret. And The Experience Of Living With The Secret And Thinking About It Is In Itself A Kind Of Faith.

I Feel That The Dormant Goodwill In People Needs To Be Stirred. People Need To Hear That It Makes Sense To Behave Decently Or To Help Others, To Place Common Interests Above Their Own, To Respect The Elementary Rules Of Human Coexistence.