Santayana's Aphorism Must Be Reversed: Too Often

For Most Americans The Constitution Had Become A Hazy Document, Cited Like The Bible On Ceremonial Occasions But Forgotten In The Daily Transactions Of Life.

What We Need Is A Rebirth Of Satire, Of Dissent, Of Irreverence, Of An Uncompromising Insistence That Phoniness Is Phony And Platitudes Are Platitudinous.

In Defense Of The World Order . . . U.s. Soldiers Would Have To Kill And Die.

The Great Religious Ages Were Notable For Their Indifference To Human Rights... Not Only For Acquiescence In Poverty, Inequality, Exploitation And Oppression, But Also For Enthusiastic Justifications For Slavery, Persecution, Abandonment Of Small Children, Torture, And Genocide... Moreover, Religion Enshrined Hierarchy, Authority, And Inequality... It Was The Age Of Equality That Brought About The Disappearance Of Such Religious Appurtenances As The Auto-da-fe And Burning At The Stake.

History, In The End, Becomes A Form Of Irony.