In Our World Of Big Names, Curiously,

The Fog Of Information Can Drive Out Knowledge.

The Hero Is Known For Achievements; The Celebrity For Well-knowns. The Hero Reveals The Possibilities Of Human Nature. The Celebrity Reveals The Possibilities Of The Press And Media. Celebrities Are People Who Make News, But Heroes Are People Who Make History. Time Makes Heroes But Dissolves Celebrities.

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.

Of All The Nations In The World, The United States Was Built In Nobody's Image. It Was The Land Of The Unexpected, Of Unbounded Hope, Of Ideals, Of Quest For An Unknown Perfection. It Is All The More Unfitting That We Should Offer Ourselves In Images. And All The More Fitting That The Images Which We Make Wittingly Or Unwittingly To Sell America To The World Should Come Back To Haunt And Curse Us.

Any Government Which Made The Welfare Of Men Depend On The Character Of Their Governors Was An Illusion.