It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
“I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.”
“By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?”