People never want to look at the present; people live 
in the rearview mirror because it’s safer, they’ve 
been there before, they feel comfort. Anybody who 
looks at the present is a threat, a nuisance in the 
extremist degree. The present is an area that people 
have always avoided throughout all human 
history—the utopias of mankind are all rearview-
mirror images of the preceding age.

The Seven O’Clock Show , Oct. 16, 1967, CBC 
Television.