The Four Wall Theory

A complacent society overlooks those actions that have no bearing on personal life. "It doesn't affect me" seems to be the mantra of so many. Only now are some beginning to realize the truth of the old adage that "all politics is local." Finally, after five years of command in control governing by Obama, folks are beginning to take notice. They haven't turned off Honey Boo Boo yet, but they did pause the show while they read that interesting little letter that arrived in the mail so soon after the Affordable Care Act became effective.

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Reading A Book

When you buy a book, you establish a property right in it, just as you do in clothes or furniture when you buy and pay for them. But the act of purchase is actually only the prelude to possession in the case of a book. Full ownership of a book only comes when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it — which comes to the same thing — is by writing in it.
Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do; if not, you probably should not be bothering with his book. But understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher, once he understands what the teacher is saying. Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.”
-  Mortimer Adler