The Organization Of American Society Is An

We Do Not Behave As If We Believed That The Affairs Of Our World Were Significant Enough For The Intervention Of Great Men.

Few Great Men Would Have Got Past Personnel.

The Ideal Of Having A Real Job That You Risk Your Soul In And Make Good Or Be Damned, Belongs To The Heroic Age Of Capitalist Enterprise, Imbued With Self-righteous Beliefs About Hard Work, Thrift, And Public Morals. Such An Ideal Might Still Have Been Mentioned In Public Fifty Years Ago; In Our Era Of Risk-insured Semimonopolies And Advertised Vices It Would Be Met With A Ghastly Stillness.

I Move In A Society So Devoid Of Ordinary Reality That I Am Continually Stopping To Teach Good Sense, To Give Support, To Help Out, As A Young Gangster Might Help An Old Lady Across The Street On His Way To The Stick-up.

In The Modern World, We Americans Are The Old Inhabitants. We First Had Political Freedom, High Industrial Production, An Economy Of Abundance.