As You Make Your Bed,

The Republic Of Technology Where We Will Be Living Is A Feedback World.

Time Makes Heroes But Dissolves Celebrities.

The Greatest Obstacle To Discovery Is Not Ignorance - It Is The Illusion Of Knowledge.

Our Attitude Toward Our Own Culture Has Recently Been Characterized By Two Qualities, Braggadocio And Petulance. Braggadocio - Empty Boasting Of American Power, American Virtue, American Know-how - Has Dominated Our Foreign Relations Now For Some Decades. Here At Home - Within The Family, So To Speak - Our Attitude To Our Culture Expresses A Superficially Different Spirit, The Spirit Of Petulance. Never Before, Perhaps, Has A Culture Been So Fragmented Into Groups, Each Full Of Its Own Virtue, Each Annoyed And Irritated At The Others.

America Has Been A Land Of Dreams. A Land Where The Aspirations Of People From Countries Cluttered With Rich, Cumbersome, Aristocratic, Ideological Pasts Can Reach For What Once Seemed Unattainable. Here They Have Tried To Make Dreams Come True. Yet Now... We Are Threatened By A New And Particularly American Menace. It Is Not The Menace Of Class War, Of Ideology, Of Poverty, Of Disease, Of Illiteracy, Or Demagoguery, Or Of Tyranny, Though These Now Plague Most Of The World. It Is The Menace Of Unreality.