Many Americans yearn to return to the days of yesteryear when slouching on the couch, drinking a beer, and watching the game was enough intellectual stimulation for one day. Or as Frank Zappa once expressed it, "TV dinner by the pool, I'm so glad I finished school life is such a ball I run the world from City Hall."
It was this noninvolved attitude that allowed activists dedicated to fundamentallytransforming America to capture the culture, academia, the media, the techno sphere, and ultimately power. The best way to sum up the mental sleepwalking of those who luxuriated in the peace and plenty provided by the American experiment is found in a French phrase: Comme ci, comme ça that literally means like this, like that. In conversation it means so-so, or neither good, nor bad.
