A Sign Of Celebrity Is That His

What Preoccupies Us, Then, Is Not God As A Fact Of Nature, But As A Fabrication Useful For A God-fearing Society. God Himself Becomes Not A Power But An Image.

The Institutional Scene In Which American Man Has Developed Has Lacked That Accumulation From Intervening Stages Which Has Been So Dominant A Feature Of The European Landscape.

Each Living Art Object, Taken Out Of Its Native Habitat So We Can Conveniently Gaze At It, Is Like An Animal In A Zoo. Something About It Has Died In The Removal.

The Most Important Lesson Of American History Is The Promise Of The Unexpected. None Of Our Ancestors Would Have Imagined Settling Way Over Here On This Unknown Continent. So We Must Continue To Have Society That Is Hospitable To The Unexpected, Which Allows Possibilities To Develop Beyond Our Own Imaginings.

America Has Been A Land Of Dreams. A Land Where The Aspirations Of People From Countries Cluttered With Rich, Cumbersome, Aristocratic, Ideological Pasts Can Reach For What Once Seemed Unattainable. Here They Have Tried To Make Dreams Come True. Yet Now... We Are Threatened By A New And Particularly American Menace. It Is Not The Menace Of Class War, Of Ideology, Of Poverty, Of Disease, Of Illiteracy, Or Demagoguery, Or Of Tyranny, Though These Now Plague Most Of The World. It Is The Menace Of Unreality.