A Fully Integrated Culture Would Be Like

The Argument That The Two Parties Should Represent Opposed Ideals And Policies, One, Perhaps, Of The Right And The Other Of The Left, Is A Foolish Idea Acceptable Only To Doctrinaire And Academic Thinkers. Instead, The Two Parties Should Be Almost Identical, So That The American People Can Throw The Rascals Out At Any Election Without Leading To Any Profound Or Extensive Shifts In Policy. Then It Should Be Possible To Replace It, Every Four Years If Necessary, By The Other Party, Which Will Be None Of These Things But Will Still Pursue, With New Vigor, Approximately The Same Basic Policies.

The West Believes That Man And The Universe Are Both Complex And That The Apparently Discordant Parts Of Each Can Be Put Into A Reasonably Workable Arrangement With A Little Good Will, Patience, And Experimentation.

To Know Is Not Too Demanding: It Merely Requires Memory And Time. But To Understand Is Quite A Different Matter: It Requires Intellectual Ability And Training, A Self Conscious Awareness Of What One Is Doing, Experience In Techniques Of Analysis And Synthesis, And Above All, Perspective.

Everything Is Too Important Ever To Be Entrusted To Professional Experts, Because Every Organization Of Such Professionals And Every Established Social Organization Becomes A Vested-interest Institution More Concerned With Its Efforts To Maintain Itself Or Advance Its Own Interests Than To Achieve The Purpose That Society Expects It To Achieve.

The Traditional Christian Attitude Toward Human Personality Was That Human Nature Was Essentially Good And That It Was Formed And Modified By Social Pressures And Training.