ABSTRACT
What would life be like, we may ask, if the citizen fulfilled even a small part of the endless injunctions given him to be interested, knowledgeable, and active? One can hardly devote less than two
evenings a week to master local problems, another two to state affairs, one to the United Nations, and two to national domestic issues. All evenings are now present and accounted for. Yet there is no time for war and peace and a host of international issues. Perhaps Saturday and Sunday must also be given up. But where is the time for family activities, for social life and friendships, for hobbies and reading and just plain relaxation? There isn't any. To sacrifice all this at the altar of citizen participation seems excessive, to say the least. No wonder there are few truly political men.
