A caterpillar gazing at the butterfly is supposed to have 
remarked. “Waal, you’ll never catch me in one of those durn 
things.”

     At another level we have seen in this century the 
changeover from the debunking of traditional myths and 
legends to their reverent study. As we begin to react in depth 
to the social life and problems of our global village, we become 
reactionaries. Involvement that goes with our instant 
technologies transforms the most “socially conscious” people 
into conservatives. When Sputnik had first gone into orbit a 
schoolteacher asked her second-graders to write some verse on 
the subject. One child wrote:

     The stars are so big,
     The earth is so small,