[kcvl]

Norman Lear's summer home, where poet Robert Frost once lived, is no remote retreat. The multi-building estate on a hillside in southern Vermont includes offices, a gym, a screening room, as well as spacious living quarters decorated in an American flag theme. Phone lines blink and intercoms buzz as Lear's business interests track him down.

Sitting comfortably in the expansive living room, wearing his trademark white sailor's cap as groundskeepers busily prepare for the weekend birthday celebration

[Paul Atreides]

Well, that is only natural. You see, he is more deserving than you or me. He cares more. He is more intellectual. He is superior. Therefore, you and I would not be deserving of such riches by mere virtue of hard work. We would give money to the wrong people. We would support the wrong candidates. We would support the wrong causes and charities. Norman Lear's America is one in which luxury is not for those who have worked for it, but for those who think in the correct manner.