Ed’s adage: That which a politician most obdurately proclaims and protests is that which he most egregiously transgresses.

When their duplicity on an issue is exposed, the most adroitly Machiavellian politicians reveal themselves as the most accomplished equivocators.

With the triumph of the mesmerizing boob tube, audiences have increasingly become unreflective spectators while politicians have increasingly become successful at deceiving them.

It has been said, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free."

Tragically, we live in an era of ‘spin’.

When there is no truth available to make you free, freedom is just another word for slavery.

When the meaning of truth has become restricted to meaning individual ‘authenticity’, those who shape public policy are handed a license to exploit the populace with impunity.

The art most needed today by audiences is the art of avoiding being fooled.

The responsibility most needed today is responsibility for community, for fellow man, for the world.

Having a voice on the internet is not the same as having a hand in the work. E-voice creates the illusion of being socially responsible through acts. It supplants the reality of the act.

Unfortunately, this art and this responsibility have been lost and no one knows where to find them. What is worse, however, is that ‘the audience’ is no longer aware of having lost any such things.

The twentieth century inaugurated the enslavement of mind. The twenty-first will devour it as though it were a cheap commodity.

Ironically, the screen actor, professional purveyors of illusion and escape, has become a sole, small vanguard for recovery of public truth and socially responsible acts, while politicians, elected for their gifts as entertainers (or actors), have become mind enslaving, mind numbing, purveyors of illusion, prevarication, and exploitation of humanity.

We Peacefully Sing the Lullaby of Lost Souls