“As I said earlier, a smug people cannot even find the motive for asking<\/p>\n
if a science of psychology exists, let alone what it has learned.<\/p>\n
And we Americans are probably the most self-satisfied people who ever<\/p>\n
appeared. The whole world starves, brawls, perishes around us.<\/p>\n
Our own philosophy of progress is leading us to swift,\u00a0 continental<\/p>\n
exhaustion–to the resourcelessness of our own progeny.<\/p>\n
Yet we believe we are doing right and doing rightly–a great, good,<\/p>\n
wonderful, near perfect nation.<\/p>\n
It will take generations of disaster to crack the hull of\u00a0 such<\/p>\n
preposterous self-satisfaction. Only through despair and amidst<\/p>\n
ruins, in all likelihood, will men discover that humility which<\/p>\n
may lead to the honest assessment of man’s vanities, his insane<\/p>\n
traditions, pompous faiths, patriotisms, and excesses.<\/p>\n
But there is not much use in talking about it or trying to explain.<\/p>\n
Knowledge cannot fend where the people refuse to know”.<\/p>\n
Excerpted from “Opus 21”, author, Philip Wylie.<\/p>\n
Published by Rhinehart and Company, New York and Toronto.<\/p>\n
I would add that this excerpt is taken out of context.<\/p>\n
“Opus 21” is a novel about a man[the author], who upon<\/p>\n
discovering a growth on the back of his throat, is told at<\/p>\n
time of biopsy that if malignant it would be inoperable<\/p>\n
due to location, and therefore fatal.<\/p>\n
Islander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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