Sadly enough, especially in countries without a widespread appreciation of history, literature, music and the visual arts--outside of intellectual circles and academia--, the uneducated do not respect the educated as much as they do Hollywood, professional sports, rich entrepreneurs...

Which accounts for, broadly speaking, Los Vegas...Texas...Seattle...Atlanta...Disneyland...

For most Americans today, that is where their energies lie: material and professional success, everything that lies on the surface.

To have a spiritual life under these conditions is not easy when one could more easily follow the herd.