Saturday, March 10, 2012

Uh-oh...........................

"In our own country freedom has given us the priceless privilege of thinking and speaking as we will.  How have we used it?  We have produced some work that will live.  We have also produced mountains of vacuous fiction, formless poetry, expensive but cheap drama, self-indulgence splashed on canvass, music that deafens and deadens us to silence as well as sound, violence in the streets, violence reaching out at us from boxes in our living rooms.  Our education levels have fallen.  Confronted by Arnold's choice between 'culture and anarchy,' we seem to have chosen anarchy.  The failure is perhaps temporary and it is in ourselves, for we have come to tolerate and even to like these things."
-Brand Blanshard, Four Reasonable Men

thanks again David

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