The Role Of Third Parties Is To

If For Every Error And Every Act Of Incompetence One Can Substitute An Act Of Treason, Many Points Of Fascinating Interpretation Are Open To The Paranoid Imagination.

The Utopia Of The Populists Was In The Past, Not In The Future. According To The Agrarian Myth, The Health Of The State Was Proportionate To The Degree To Which It Was Dominated By The Agricultural Class, And This Assumption Pointed To The Superiority Of An Earlier Age.

We Have Learned So Well How To Absorb Novelty That Receptivity Itself Has Turned Into A Kind Of Tradition- "the Tradition Of The New." Yesterdays Avant-garde Experiment Is Today's Chic And Tomorrows Cliche.

To The Reactionary Ear Every Whispered Criticism Of The Elite Classes Has Always Sounded Like The Opening Shot Of An Uprising.

To Be Sick And Helpless Is A Humiliating Experience. Prolonged Illness Also Carries The Hazard Of Narcissistic Self-absorption.