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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,