I'd like see an ad with somebody listening to Mozart and reading Milton or Shakespeare.

It was a process of listening, listening, watching, listening, reading, more and more.

I have good reason to be content,
for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.

Only when the privileged classes perform military service, only when elite youth are on the firing line, does the country define the cause as worth young peoples' blood and do war losses become acceptable, ... the answer to what constitutes vital national interests is found not so much on the cause, itself, but in who is willing to die for that cause.