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Destruction Is Easy For Humans But Creation Is Too Difficult.

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.

History Had Been Man's Effort To Accomodate Himself To What He Could Not Do. Amereican History In The 20th Century Would, More Than Ever Before, Test Man's Ability To Accomodate Himself To All The New Things He Could Do.

The Hero Is Known For Achievements; The Celebrity For Well-knowns. The Hero Reveals The Possibilities Of Human Nature. The Celebrity Reveals The Possibilities Of The Press And Media. Celebrities Are People Who Make News, But Heroes Are People Who Make History. Time Makes Heroes But Dissolves Celebrities.

Celebrity-worship And Hero-worship Should Not Be Confused. Yet We Confuse Them Every Day, And By Doing So We Come Dangerously Close To Depriving Ourselves Of All Real Models. We Lose Sight Of The Men And Women Who Do Not Simply Seem Great Because They Are Famous But Are Famous Because They Are Great. We Come Closer And Closer To Degrading All Fame Into Notoriety.