Is There a Hierarchy?

Jay Parini: I think the question is one of hierarchy especially in wartime. So why is it I have to know that this work even if it is worthwhile is more worthwhile than the work I could be doing at the front? That still has that has yet to be proven because I could be talking to a room full of vacuum salesman. Is selling vacuums worthwhile work? Sure. Could they better spend their time at theFront? Yeah. But my point is that any activity in the face of the impending destruction of your country has to be weighed on the scales of okay can I do this activity and feel morally right about possibly risking many of my countrymen to subservience and perhaps