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In A Car You're Always In A Compartment, And Because You're Used To It You Don't Realize That Through That Car Window Everything You See Is Just More Tv. You're A Passive Observer And It Is All Moving By You Boringly In A Frame. On A Cycle The Frame Is Gone. You're Completely In Contact With It All. You're In The Scene, Not Just Watching It Anymore, And The Sense Of Presence Is Overwhelming.

What We Think Of As Reality Is A Continuous Synthesis Of Elements From A Fixed Hierarchy Of A Priori Concepts And The Ever Changing Data Of The Senses.

There Is An Evil Tendency Underlying All Our Technology - The Tendency To Do What Is Reasonable Even When It Isn't Any Good.

Schools Teach You To Imitate. If You Don't Imitate What The Teacher Wants You Get A Bad Grade. Here, In College, It Was More Sophisticated, Of Course; You Were Supposed To Imitate The Teacher In Such A Way As To Convince The Teacher You Were Not Imitating, But Taking The Essence Of The Instruction And Going Ahead With It On Your Own. That Got You A's. Originality On The Other Hand Could Get You Anything -- From A To F. The Whole Grading System Cautioned Against It.

How Are You Going To Teach Virtue If You Teach The Relativity Of All Ethical Ideas? Virtue, If It Implies Anything At All, Implies An Ethical Absolute. A Person Whose Idea Of What Is Proper Varies From Day To Day Can Be Admired For His Broadmindedness, But Not For His Virtue.