Americans and the Higher Virtues

In January of 1970, our 10th grade English teacher read the class 12 short pieces of advice that were part of a calendar, one for each month of the year.  The advice pertained not how to be healthy or how to live a rich, honest, rewarding life, but how to be cool.  The last line of each monthly suggestion was the same: “Eat plenty of burgers.”

As the cartoonist whose work appears here has observed, Americans may have limited appetite for Plato and Socrates, but we can’t get enough cheap junk in our lives.