¶ Watergate
Index Entry
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.’
¶ Citations
- RBF quoted by Marian Bruce in Vancouver SUN, 14 Jun’73
