But he's worried. The thing that bothers him most is the ignorance, the lack of understanding, on the part of the general public of what we're up against and what we're trying to do. To begin with, he thinks, most people still don't understand that this is no ordinary depression. The part that technological development plays in it just hasn't sunk in on people generally at all, he thinks. Now, he says, with business picking up due largely to heroic effort on the part of the New Dealers, the businessmen who aren't actually fighting the New Deal have settled back into a comfortable complacency, lulled off to sleep by improvement in their own particular situations.
People ARE so damned lazy mentally.
They WON'T think. They are a lot better off than they were a year ago. So, aside from kicking a little about Government expense, they're perfectly contented as long as they aren't interfered with. They have no conception at all of the problem or of what Roosevelt is trying to do. Now all really thoughtful people realize that things are never going to be the same again.