On the Right

New York. July 2 — This dispatch does not aim at solving the gas shortage—that will come later—but at coping with the most annoying features of it. First, a personal thesis:

It is that the technological progress of the American people is substantially the result of our nervous system. Spiritual impatience is to be deplored. Not so such impatience as saves one time; as reduces unnecessary work. The key to technological efficiency is impatience with drudge work. If washing dishes were fun. we’d never have invented the dishwasher. People who do not complain about bad service do not get telephones that permit you to dial coast-to-coast in twenty seconds.

About the Author

William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

New York. July 2 — This dispatch does not aim at solving the gas shortage—that will come later—but at coping with the most annoying features of it. First, a personal thesis:

It is that the technological progress of the American people is substantially the result of our nervous system. Spiritual impatience is to be deplored. Not so such impatience as saves one time; as reduces unnecessary work. The key to technological efficiency is impatience with drudge work. If washing dishes were fun. we’d never have invented the dishwasher. People who do not complain about bad service do not get telephones that permit you to dial coast-to-coast in twenty seconds.