And then it is soon discovered that the forms of the past are merely
the excuse by which a powerful ruling oligarchy have made a
comfortable home for themselves in the midst of a decaying order,
while the rest of us discover to our horror that the comfortable rules
of the past are oppressing and frustrating us: Then it is a time that
has come to re-examine our real position and our real problems, and
seek answers and solutions which may meet entirely new conditions,
conditions which now do not automatically answer to the rules which we
have inherited.
-- Stanley Berne. Future Language, NY: Horizon Press, 1976.
An Archives of Post-Modern Literature Series, publication no. 103. pp.33-34.