Maybe At 20 You Can

Today Washington Is Our Hollywood, The Senate Our Warner Bros., The White House Our Beverly Hills. People Who Never Read A Line Of A Movie Magazine Deal With The Lives Of Leaders As If They Were Elizabeth Taylor And Richard Burton.

Even If Every Program Were Educational And Every Advertisement Bore The Seal Of Approval Of The American Dental Association, We Would Still Have A Critical Problem. It's Not Just The Programs But The Act Of Watching Television Hour After Hour After Hour That's Destructive.

We Are Told That People Stay In Love Because Of Chemistry, Or Because They Remain Intrigued With Each Other, Because Of Many Kindnesses, Because Of Luck. But Part Of It Has Got To Be Forgiveness And Gratefulness.

Maybe This Year, We Ought To Walk Through The Rooms Of Our Lives Not Looking For Flaws, But Looking For Potential.

I Wonder Whether Our Adoption Of Shrink-ese As A Second Language, The Move From Religious Phrases Of Judgment To Secular Words Of Acceptance, Hasn't Also Produced A Moral Lobotomy. In The Reluctance, The Aversion To Being Judgmental, Are We Disabled From Making Any Judgments At All?