“It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.”
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Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.
Something's happened in our society which I don't think is beneficial, and that's that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, every local station - I've been traveling around the country a lot, and you see the local news, and they give box-office reports.
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.