Obama & Mccain Differ, But Neither Takes

Things Have Gotten So Bad In This Country, You Look Back At Richard Nixon With Nostalgia.

We Have The Most Prolonged Adolescence In The History Of Mankind. There Is No Other Society That Requires So Many Years To Pass Before People Are Grown Up ... Adolescence Is Nurtured And Prolonged By Educational Processes And By Industry That Has Found A Bonanza In Embracing The Adolescent Population And Fortifying 'adolescent Values.' This Prolongation Of Adolescence Robs The Country Of The Population Group Having The Most Risk Takers, And The Highest Ideals.

One Day At Princeton, I Noticed There Were Dead Birds On The Pavement Between The Campus Buildings, Where Very Large Trees Were. It Turns Out It Was Ddt. At The Time, In The Early '50s, No One Thought Ddt Was Dangerous To Anybody But Insects. I Went Down To The Daily Princetonian, The College Paper, And Tried To Persuade Them To Do A Story. They Said, "naw, There's Nothing Wrong." But That Taught Me A Very Important Lesson. One, That Newspaper People Can Get Very Jaded. Second, That You Might Know Something, Like An Expert Chemistry Professor, You Are Not Going To Apply What You Know.

Looking At Virtual Reality Through Computer Screens, Video Game Screens, And Above All Television Screens Is A Denial Of Personality Development. It's A Denial Of Socialization, Of Expansion Of Vocabulary, Of Interaction With Real Human Beings.

Addiction Should Never Be Treated As A Crime. It Has To Be Treated As A Health Problem. We Do Not Send Alcoholics To Jail In This Country. Over 500,000 People Are In Our Jails Who Are Nonviolent Drug Users.