Historically the American people have always yearned mightily for leadership and have consistently mistrusted and maligned it whenever it appeared.
“Eventually, we may come to visualize an intellectual space in which the systems of words and images will both, as Jonas Mekas once said of semiology, ‘seem like half of something,’ a universe in which image and word, each resolving the contradictions inherent in the other, will constitute the system of consciousness.”
Hollis Frampton