David Foster Wallace Quotes
It May Sound Reactionary, I Know. But We Can All Feel It. We've Changed The Way We Think Of Ourselves As Citizens. We Don't Think Of Ourselves As Citizens In The Old Sense Of Being Small Parts Of Something Larger And Infinitely More Important To Which We Have Serious Responsibilities. We Do Still Think Of Ourselves As Citizens In The Sense Of Being Beneficiaries
we're Actually Conscious Of Our Rights As American Citizens And The Nation's Responsibilities To Us And Ensuring We Get Our Share Of The American Pie. We Think Of Ourselves Now As Eaters Of The Pie Instead Of Makers Of The Pie. So Who Makes The Pie?
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Something Has Happened Where We've Decided On A Personal Level That It's All Right To Abdicate Our Individual Responsibility To The Common Good And Let Government Worry About The Common Good While We All Go About Our Individual Self-interested Business And Struggle To Gratify Our Various Appetites.
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