I Write To Discover What I Think.

Human Models Are More Vivid And More Persuasive Than Explicit Moral Commands.

A Pseudo-event ... Comes About Because Someone Has Planned It, Planted, Or Incited It. Typically, It Is Not A Train Wreck Or An Earthquake, But An Interview.

The Great Obstacle To Discovering The Shape Of The Earth, The Continents, And The Oceans Was Not Ignorance, But The Illusion Of Knowledge.

The American Experience Stirred Mankind From Discovery To Exploration. From The Cautious Quest For What They Knew (or Thought They Knew) Was Out There, Into An Enthusiastic Reaching To The Unknown. These Are Two Substantially Different Kinds Of Human Enterprise.

The Improved American Highway System Isolated The American-in-transit. On His Speedway He Had No Contact With The Towns Which He By-passed. If He Stopped For Food Or Gas, He Was Served No Local Fare Or Local Fuel, But Had One Of Howard Johnson's Nationally Branded Ice Cream Flavors, And So Many Gallons Of Exxon. This Vast Ocean Of Superhighways Was Nearly As Free Of Culture As The Sea Traversed By The Mayflower Pilgrims.