Watergate

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Watergate:

"Watergate is a fantastically, extraordinary, beautiful moment

in history-- the end of the line in lying and game-playing.

"Man is the only phenomenon in Universe that lies. Hydrogen

doesn't lie to itself that it doesn't join up with oxygen. It

doesn't consider this sexually, something it has to do on the

quiet. Children are born spontaneously truthful. But older

people say, 'Darling, that will get you into trouble.' Or,

'That will get your daddy into trouble.'

"Lies, and how to get on, and justifying means, really begin in

delicate, polite ways and in fear of the mother that their

child is going to get hurt. But young people are now saying

they won't tolerate hypocrisy, and Watergate is the end of

game-playing.

"I think they're all saying, 'We will not think that ends

justify means, we do not think it worthwhile lying to protect

those we love if they have to live in a world where we keep

on lying. Society is well-informed theoretically, but its

conditioned reflexes are half a millennium behind that knowledge.'

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