The book NO LIBERTY FOR LICENSE was written by David Lowenthal a few years ago and published in 1997. The book is well worth the reading of every American just to remind us of what has happened and will continue to happen to the founder's ideas put forth in the 1st Ammendment.
In the conclusion to his writing is the following: The renewal we need must be moral, rational, and spiritual all at once. The incentive for it can be furnished not by some artificial vision of America's future but by the memory of her past. We have allowed ourselves to be pulled from our natural moorings and now live immersed in a world artificially molded by technological advances and the mass media. A sierra Club that brings us back occasionally to the natural wilds is not enough. It is in the texture of our every day lives that we must attempt to regain the marvelous simplicity that was ours for so long. It is in cultivating the memory of our past---our great accomplishments as a nation, our outstanding individuals, our pious, sober, and loving families, our great authors and artists, our active industries, our music, folk and popular---that we can best keep from being engulfed by the present and renew our democratic humanity in the highest sense. Whether or not this can be done we do not know, but whoever finds practical ways of doing it will earn the eternal gratitude of his countrymen, and the world besides. We have perhaps been the most forward-looking nation: now we must look backward, regaining the past for the present, in order to be able to look forward well again...........Medicineman!
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