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(A)People have little sense of temporal placement, of the continuity of national past and present, of the legacy ofhistory and the promise of posterity.
(B)If people seek the newest thing that is hyped, it is likely to be a frivolity, something of little weight orimportance.
(C)But confidence in the new is something that has to be created, through the good offices of hype artists who“phony up” futures of newfound pleasures and delights.
(D)Reality is momentary, the symbolic focus of the ephemeral now.