Voyou wrote:
>
>> "The slightly richer ... eat in semi-darkness, preferring
> candles to electricity. These candles make me laugh. All the
> electricity belongs to the bourgeoisie, yet they eat by
> candle-end. They have an unconscious fear of their own
> electricity. They are embarrassed, like the sorcerer who has
> called up spirits he is unable to control."
> -- Vladimir Mayakovsky
This is one of the best accounts I've read of the decay of u.s. public life over the last 40 years.
Carrol