I only ask because I came across this great pile of steaming platitudes, and I thought of the magnificent Party Political Speech created by Peter Sellars in 1958,
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"Future belongs to those who prepare for it today. The future is now."Sellars
"Does this mean, I hear you cry, that we can no longer look forward to the future that is to come?"Update
Somebody has questioned Sellars own politics, and I checked and was impressed to discover this defence of free speech and opposition to a no platform policy,
In January 1960, the British Film Institute announced a film lecture series; among the guest speakers were Sellers, the leftist film gadfly Ivor Montagu and Leni Riefenstahl, director of the Hitler documentary "Triumph of the Will" a quarter-century before. Montagu denounced Riefenstahl, the BFI revoked her invitation, and Sellers, the half-Jewish comic, issued this modest, brave statement in defense of Hitler's favorite director: "Miss Riefenstahl has presumably been invited to lecture because of her outstanding talents as a filmmaker. Alongside her contributions to the art of filmmaking, our efforts, if I may say so, Mr Montagu, appear very puny indeed." And Sellers' gesture appears both brave and gallant.
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