Ascent Intro

What's the problem

Is there a tragedy here

If he wants to spend his life that way, that's his business

He lives in a free society, he can do anything with it he wants

But there's a terrible tragedy here if he's living that way because of the total lack

Of a decision

If he's living that way simply because he's still doing what he was doing in the first

And second grade, and that's going along with the fellas up and down the block on the unspoken assumption that they Know how to live

Then there's a real tragedy there

Because they've never known how to live, not in all the recorded history of mankind