We Certainly Have At Present

In The Modern World, We Americans Are The Old Inhabitants. We First Had Political Freedom, High Industrial Production, An Economy Of Abundance.

It Is By Losing Himself In The Objective, In Inquiry, Creation, And Craft, That A Man Becomes Something.

The Aim Is Not To Give Human Beings Real Goals That Warrant Belief, And Tasks To Share In, But To Re-establish "belonging," Although This Kind Of Speech And Thought Is Precisely Calculated To Avoid Contact And So Makes Belonging Impossible.

The Ideal Of Having A Real Job That You Risk Your Soul In And Make Good Or Be Damned, Belongs To The Heroic Age Of Capitalist Enterprise, Imbued With Self-righteous Beliefs About Hard Work, Thrift, And Public Morals. Such An Ideal Might Still Have Been Mentioned In Public Fifty Years Ago; In Our Era Of Risk-insured Semimonopolies And Advertised Vices It Would Be Met With A Ghastly Stillness.

In A Milieu Of Resignation, Where The Young Men Think Of Society As A Closed Room In Which There Are No Values But The Rejected Rat Race, ... It Is Extremely Hard To Aim At Objective Truth Or World Culture. One's Own Products Are Likely To Be Personal Or Parochial.