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Societies, like people, dream and become disillusioned; refashion dream from some obscure opportunity and move toward this opportunity with vengeance. Where opportunity does not yet exist, the dreamers step forward.

The young man began to notice that two predominant types rose up out of things. There was the social person who surrendered to convention and opinion and the psychological person who abstracted everything in himself to protest the conventional, to gain a kind of supercilious personal identity. It may be necessary, he thought. But that base was a common one for both types. The desire for power or, even, the desire for immortality. The conventional type surrendered to objects of convention believing them to extend into the future where his or her personality re-enacts itself through the convention. The psychological person surrendered to advance thought believing the same thing. And further believes that a kind of equilibrium in the present is a kind of immortality.

"I want to be free of all this," he said. "My first loyalty is to my creative spirit and that finds its fullest expression in making language speak out the powers, pains, and joys of having a spirit. It works in conjunction with an ineffable opening spirit that best goes unnamed." "Certainly my greatest desire is to compress and compel experience toward a healthy future by opening up knots of obstruction that keeps the streams of nature damned up, concealed, and riddled with demons of every sort."

"Oh these frustrated human beings! Here in late 20th century with all its expansive techniques and its variety not able to consummate even one desire to bring life up to its ripe and profound richness!"

"With study we bathe in pools with shadows and glint of sunshine through the leaves, over the water."

Youth discovers in the nick of time it is cursed with a double-nature swimming off in opposite directions and if he isn't careful will simply obey the desires of other people.

A nation created out of thought expects its adventuresome types to experiment; many failures and successes will follow, at the end of which comes understanding that will bring on more experiment, further experiment will bring on more failures and success, more understanding to the end of time. The paternalistic equation says, "material growth = freedom." Only a nation filled with refugees and immigrants filled with sentimental souls would believe in it. You can detect the bitterness in their voice as you can with orphans. What other nation started with a thought? A thought conscious of itself as a thought. A thought at the end point of experience.