So tolerance and trust were practical necessities. Living more or less safely in a world we understood, we found liberty an easy thing to keep. But elsewhere, as I say, the average American's sense of the world has likely been derived by staring at it through the one-way tunnel of information. What the media's taught my fellow citizens is that all the world is dangerous in some irrational, non-specific way. Terrorists are everywhere.
Nature is in open rebellion.
Making love can kill you. Your fellow humans are liars in suits, thugs, zealots, psychopaths, and, mostly, victims who look a lot like you. Television amplifies the world's mayhem and gives you no way to talk back. Just as right now it's giving you no way to argue with me. Because it lives on your attention.