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...will miss our chances for strength and insight. "History never confesses," wrote Merleau-Ponty, "not even her lost illusions, but neither does she dream of them again." ( Signs, p. 35) When we discover that we persist in those illusions, and when we stop asking the past to condemn itself and justify our present, then we may, if we are careful in our attention, let the past speak for itself. History could then cease to be our nightmare, and we might learn from it to speak, and act, for ourselves...
...resides in the broad consent of the people, we must apply to ourselves the same rule that we have with such grave innocence applied to criminals of war in the past. If animals did what we accuse these few of doing, we would destroy them. Yet we hesitate to condemn so quickly. We see in them something of ourselves that we cannot understand and, failing to understand, attempt to deny...
...more people do not realize where the real blame lies instead of looking for scapegoats and excuses, if more do not condemn this and every war, then this whole mass post-mortem will have been in vain...
Faith in the free market has caused Friedman to condemn many Establishment institutions as monopolies. His targets include the New York Stock Exchange?in his view, a brokers' commission-fixing cartel?and the public-school system. He contends that the Government should issue vouchers that parents could cash at any school they choose for their children. This, he says, would encourage the founding of independent schools to compete with public schools, particularly "in the ghettos where schooling now available is extremely unsatisfactory." He believes that men who work as leaders in the free market should devote their full energies...
...Unhappily, draft-card burners and Viet Cong-flag wavers steal the lion's share of publicity. The first clown I run across yelling, 'Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh ... the N.L.F. is gonna win!" is gonna win a punch in the mouth. But why condemn the majority of compassionate, intelligent Americans crusading for peace just because of a few morons...