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Journalists Are Among A Select Group, Along With Warriors And Executioners Who Are Authorized To Do Harm. As James Fallows Says, A Lot Of Journalists Think That Isn't So, And That Everything Will Wash Out Ultimately. But I Don't Think They Are Aware Of The Long-term Damage.

Around My Eighth Or Ninth Year I Became Interested In The World's Religions. I Was Mathematically Retarded But Theologically Precocious. I Began To Correspond With Seikhs In India. After About The Third Letter They Would Ask About Job Opportunities In America.

I Find That All Over The World, Not Only Is There An Acceleration Of Just About Everything, But That Many Of The Old Patterns Are Deconstructing. New Ones Are Arising. It's Tremendously Exciting, Challenging, And Also Sometimes, Well, Scary.

Laughter Lifts Our Spirits, Surprises And Sometime Shocks Our Expectations, Allows Us To Cross Boundaries, Reorders Our Priorities, And Gives Us Access To Ideas And Associations We Rarely Ever Thought To Have.

We're In A Decaying Culture Now. Naturally, The Young People In The Culture Are Going To Feel Themselves To Be Products Of The Decay.