We Live Increasingly In A System In

It Rarely Adds Anything To Say, "in My Opinion" - Not Even Modesty. Naturally A Sentence Is Only Your Opinion; And You Are Not The Pope.

I Move In A Society So Devoid Of Ordinary Reality That I Am Continually Stopping To Teach Good Sense, To Give Support, To Help Out, As A Young Gangster Might Help An Old Lady Across The Street On His Way To The Stick-up.

The "brightness" Of The 15 Percent Might Or Might Not Indicate A Profound Feeling For The Causes Of Things; It Is Largely Verbal And Symbol-manipulating, And Is Almost Certainly Partly An Obsessional Device Not To Know And Touch Risky Matter, Just As Freud Long Ago Pointed Out That The Nagging Questions Of Small Children Are A Substitute For Asking The Forbidden Questions.

An Awkward Consequence Of Heightening Experience When One Is Inexperienced, Of Self-transcendence When One Has Not Much World To Lose, Is That Afterward One Cannot Be Sure That One Was Somewhere Or Had Newly Experienced Anything. If You Aren't Much In The World, How Do You Know You Are "out Of This World"?

The Aim Is Not To Give Human Beings Real Goals That Warrant Belief, And Tasks To Share In, But To Re-establish "belonging," Although This Kind Of Speech And Thought Is Precisely Calculated To Avoid Contact And So Makes Belonging Impossible.