The Family Is The American

It Then Becomes Necessary To Stop Short And Make A Choice: Either/or. Either One Drifts With Their Absurd System Of Ideas, Believing That This Is The Human Community. Or One Dissents Totally From Their System Of Ideas And Stands As A Lonely Human Being. (but Luckily One Notices That The Others Are In The Same Crisis And Making The Same Choices.)

A Well-known Magazine Asks A Man How They Should Refer To Him, As Psychologist X, As Author X? He Suggests Man Of Letters, For That Is What He Is, In The Eighteenth-century Meaning. But They Can't Buy That Because The Word Doesn't Exist In Time-style; He Cannot Be That, And Presumably The Old Function Of Letters Cannot Exist.

It Is By Losing Ourselves In Inquiry, Creation & Craft That We Become Something. Civilization Is A Continual Gift Of Spirit: Inventions, Discoveries, Insight, Art. We Are Citizens, As Socrates Would Have Said, & We Have It Available As Our Own.

It Rarely Adds Anything To Say, "in My Opinion" - Not Even Modesty. Naturally A Sentence Is Only Your Opinion; And You Are Not The Pope.

The Importance Of The Beats Is Twofold: First, They Act Out A Critique Of The Organized System That Everybody In Some Sense Agrees With. But Second-and More Important In The Long Run-they Are A Kind Of Major Pilot Study Of The Use Of Leisure In An Economy Of Abundance.