It sounds like a truism but I think the importance of a well-informed public can hardly be overrated. The only problem is that today the majority of mass media seem to think it is their duty to misinform their viewers/readers/listeners.

Look who's talking!

My first thought on reading this: the poor man! What terrible intellectual and emotional poverty to find nothing more rewarding in life than avoiding taxes. Not for him the wonderful wealth of God's creation, only money, money, money... I wonder how such a person feels at the moment when he has to say goodbye to his riches forever. Does he realize he has never experienced the fullness of life? Probably not because he has no idea there is a wonderful world beside the making and hoarding of money.

Wow, this is almost unbelievable. Did he really say that - and as late as 1994? I'd like to know what sort of Americans he considered/s (?) African-Americans to be... Maybe 'in-ordinary' Americans?

And if you use your total freedom to destroy the environment and our children's future slowly, slowly without ever seeming to hurt anybody because these things take a looooong time, well then you can at least be proud of having destroyed our planet and the future of all mankind in freedom!