Our Very Lives Depend On The Ethics

The Printed Page Conveys Information And Commitment, And Requires Active Involvement. Television Conveys Emotion And Experience, And It's Very Limited In What It Can Do Logically. It's An Existential Experience - There And Then Gone.

I Report The Assault On Nature Evidenced In Coal Mining That Tears The Tops Off Mountains And Dumps Them Into Rivers, Sacrificing The Health And Lives Of Those In The River Valleys To Short-term Profit, And I See A Link Between That Process And The Stock-market Frenzy Which Scorns Long-term Investments-genuine Savings-in Favor Of Quick Turnovers And Speculative Bubbles Whose Inevitable Bursting Leaves Insiders With Stuffed Pockets And Millions Of Small Stockholders, Pensioners, And Employees Out Of Work, Out Of Luck, And Out Of Hope.

What We Need Is What The Ancient Israelites Called Hochma - The Science Of The Heart...the Capacity To See, To Feel, And Then To Act As If The Future Depended On You. Believe Me, It Does.

People Who Don't Believe In Government Are Likely To Defy Our Government.

Sharing Is The Essence Of Teaching. It Is, I Have Come To Believe, The Essence Of Civilization...without It, The Imagination Is But The Echo Of The Self, Trapped In A Soundproof Chamber, Reverberating Upon Itself Until It Is Spent In Exhaustion Or Futility.