By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tensio...n between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain to produce envious rage: somebody screwed democracy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a universe that is all gradations of matter, from gross to fine to finer, so that we end up with everything we are composed of ...in a lattice, a grid, a mesh, a mist, where particles or movements so small we cannot observe them are held in a strict and accurate web, that is nevertheless nonexistent to the eyes we use for ordinary living--in this system of fine and finer, where then is the substance of a thought?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »