The Sanctity of Life . Opinion vs. Thought. The Burdens of Technology . The Television Generation. Art Those who pander to the public taste may be excellent craftsmen.
True artists grasp at what is about to come and portray it.
If we give in to the tendency to kill the messanger, we destroy the opportunity to face the future we are being unconsciously propelled toward and to modify the choices which lead us in that direction. The Blessed Virgin Mary mired in elephant dung may be an offensive image, but as a manifestation of where the crass materialism of our day is leading, She is, unfortunately, an accurate image. Those who rail out against the portrayal of such blasphemy might better direct their energies to modifying the choices which inevitably lead to a world in which the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary mired in elephant dung will portray the truth of who we have become. Politicians and their supporters traveled from place to place, telling the voters what they hoped to accomplish. Newspapers carried reports of what they said.