Guilty As Hell. Free As A Bird.

The Great Example, The Killer Example In History, Is Of Course Abraham Lincoln, The Great Emancipator. Read His Speeches. Read The Debates. Wendell Phillips Called Him "the Great Slaver From Illinois."

Education Is The Motor-force Of Revolution.

We All Want To Believe This American Pastoral, But There's More To It. We Have To Be Willing To Exile Ourselves From The Fantasies And The Mythology That We Create Around Ourselves, Or We're Doomed To Kind Of Innocently Blunder Into Every Country In The World And Murder People.

Teaching Has Always Been, For Me, Linked To Issues Of Social Justice. I've Never Considered It A Neutral Or Passive Profession.

But The Frat Boys Were All Frivolous And Idiotic In Our Minds Now, A Bunch Of Conformist Fools Going Through The Motions Of Hip.