Old Age Is Like Learning A New

The Nation In Arms Is Virtually A Communist State: The People Must Be Paid Wages And Fed And Protected And Regimented Behind The Lines As Much As On The Front. Minds Must Be Kept Loyal And At The Right Pitch Of Hate, So That Successive Drafts Of Fighters Are Accepted Without Murmurings. Letters And Newspapers Must Be Censored While The Propaganda Mill Grinds On. As For Decisions Of Strategy And Overall Command, They Must Please Many Masters: Dissenters In The Cabinet, The Heads Of The Allied States And Public Opinion. Hence Failures Must Be Disguised Or Concealed.

When People Accept Futility And The Absurd As Normal, The Culture Is Decadent.

I Can Only Think That The Book Is Read Because It Deals With The Difficulties Of Schooling, Which Do Not Change. Please Note: The Difficulties, Not The Problems. Problems Are Solved Or Disappear With The Revolving Times. Difficulities Remain. It Will Always Be Difficult To Teach Well, To Learn Accurately; To Read, Write, And Count Readily And Competently; To Acquire A Sense Of History And Start One's Education Or Anothers.

An Artist Has Every Right - One May Even Say A Duty - To Exhibit His Productions As Prominently As He Can.

The Ever-present Impulse Is To Push Against Restriction And, In So Doing, To Feel Intolerably Hemmed In. Thus In Practice, Every Liberation Increases The Sense Of Oppression. Nor Is The Paradox Merely In The Mind: The Laws Enacted To Secure The Rights Of Every Person And Group, By Creating Protective Boundaries, Create New Barriers.