We Do Not Behave As If We

In America You Can Say Anything You Want - As Long As It Doesn't Have Any Effect.

The Ideal Of Having A Real Job That You Risk Your Soul In And Make Good Or Be Damned, Belongs To The Heroic Age Of Capitalist Enterprise, Imbued With Self-righteous Beliefs About Hard Work, Thrift, And Public Morals. Such An Ideal Might Still Have Been Mentioned In Public Fifty Years Ago; In Our Era Of Risk-insured Semimonopolies And Advertised Vices It Would Be Met With A Ghastly Stillness.

We Do Not Behave As If We Believed That The Affairs Of Our World Were Significant Enough For The Intervention Of Great Men.

Thwarted, Or Starved, In The Important Objects Proper To Young Capacities, The Boys And Young Men Naturally Find Or Invent Deviant Objects For Themselves. ... Their Choices And Inventions Are Rarely Charming, Usually Stupid, And Often Disastrous; We Cannot Expect Average Kids To Deviate With Genius. But On The Other Hand, The Young Men Who Conform To The Dominant Society Become For The Most Part Apathetic, Disappointed, Cynical And Wasted.

Let Me Formulate The Artistic Disposition As Follows: It Is Reacting With One's Ideal To The Flaw In Oneself And In The World, And Somehow Making That Reaction Formation Solid Enough In The Medium So That It Indeed Becomes An Improved Bit Of Real World For Others.