Stances and Substances

Three of the most talked-of problems in the Western world, and especially America, today are hair, drugs, and the Vietnamese War, and all of them center around the young. The young are seemingly America's first preoccupa tion, and they have brought these matters to the forefront of our concerns. In all three, they have threatened the tra ditional culture by their adoption of the attitudes of opposi tion. By their actions they are expressing deeply held convic tions so opposed to the accepted mores and the status quo that parents, teachers, and governments are being challenged to review their own stances or accept the disquieting, chilling, or sometimes horrifying results. The responsibility for all these actions on the part of the young is laid at the door of the control structure that is the cause of the civilizational crisis with which the Western nations are faced. A laborious course of social reconstruction, led by men of wisdom and inspiration, is probably the only way to the survival of our culture.