Sunday, December 31
The year is over, and where did it bring you? With any luck, to a better understanding of how time, which passes, also remains still. FDR knew something important about motivating the public. So did Adolf Hitler. The ad agency handling the Campbell's Soup account knew it, as did the Marx Brothers.Goebbels and Hearst were the same guy, tuned to different frequencies. Because history is a whore, the only thing we get to say about them is that one was on the winning side.The same battles are being fought forever, the same disasters and triumphs occur. It isn't that there is no human agency or will, it isn't that there is nothing that can be done. It's that it must always be done. There is no end to this. We dream of the better place, and then allow our dreams to be captured. My dream ...