We Dull Our Lives By The Way

Everything That Everyone Is Afraid Of Has Already Happened: The Fragility Of Capitalism, Which We Don't Want To Admit; The Loss Of The Empire Of The United States; And American Exceptionalism. In Fact, American Exceptionalism Is That We Are Exceptionally Backward In About Fifteen Different Categories, From Education To Infrastructure.

Economics Is A Slave-driver. No One Has Free Time; No One Has Any Leisure.

A Mother Should Have Some Fantasy About Her Child's Future. It Will Increase Her Interest In The Child, For One Thing. To Turn The Fantasy Into A Program To Make The Child Fly An Airplane Across The Country, For Example, Isn't The Point. That's The Fulfillment Of The Parent's Own Dreams. That's Different. Having A Fantasy - Which The Child Will Either Seek To Fulfill Or Rebel Against Furiously - At Least Gives A Child Some Expectation To Meet Or Reject.

You Don't Know What You're Going To Get Into When You Follow Your Bliss.

The Word Power Has Such A Generally Negative Implication In Our Society. What Are People Talking About? Are They Talking About Muscles, Or Control?