[on Haight-Ashbury era 60’s youth and their cultural values] “These were children who grew up cut loose from the web of cousins and great aunts and family doctors and lifelong neighbors who had traditionally suggested and enforced the society’s values. They are less rebellious against the society than ignorant of it.”
Joan Didion

“All men [may be] created equal, but all societies are not—not unless tribal despotism, slavery, ritual sacrifice and cannibalism are ‘just as good as’ law, liberty, the Eucharist and a diet that echews human flesh.”
from National Review

“A society which sustains itself by grubbing for roots with stone implements is indeed primitive and stone age, however admirable its individual members may be.”
from National Review