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Unfortunately, Public Debates Do Not Have Much Room For Subtlety. The Audience Wants A Quick Thrust At Your Opponent, Not A Slow And Convoluted Series Of Moves. Whenever Obama Uses Subtleties In Discussing A Complex Issue, He Gets Creamed.

That Has Been The Great Achievement Of Our Age: To So Thoroughly Flood The Planet With Megabits That Every Image And Fact Has Become A Digitized Disembodied Nothingness. With Magnificent Determination, Our Species Has Advanced From Stone Age To Industrial Revolution To Digital Emptiness. We've Become Weightless, In The Bad Sense Of The Word.

Don't You Feel Something Magical When You're In Love?... I Do, I Certainly Do ... But I Think That Feeling Of Magic Is A Hardwired Psychological Response. It's A Chemical Thing In The Brain. It's A Flow Of Chemicals And Electrical Currents, And It Developed Over Millions Of Years In The Process Of Evolution To Aid In The Procreation Of The Species.

I Picked Such Seemingly Disparate Essays, I Thought It Was Important To Say What Was The Guiding Principle In The Selection Rather Than Focus On Any One Essay. I Reached For Some Principle That Had Been Subconscious In Me And Lifted It Into Consciousness. Authenticity And Sincerity Were The Most Important Unifying Principles Of All These Apparently Different Essays.

I Think It Is Always A Long Shot Getting A Book Made Into A Film. Making That Book Into A Film Is Going To Be Quite A Challenge.