“Hidden in the media’s love of the tragic is not only a hidden death wish, but also an unconscious concern with the ultimate death.  Accidents, muggings, assassinations are interesting as penultimates because they avoid facing the ultimate.  The same is true of the passion for revolution and the despisal of the past.  For the first time they no longer think about history, so as to avoid old errors with new labels; rather, they seek consciously to create history as a ‘now.’”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Those Mysterious Priests)