In the late '60's we had the Vietnam and Anti-Vietnam forces in this culture that were destabilizing. What happens in the presence of that destabilization, where there is human unconsciousness, is that people get frightened. When they get frightened, they use certain mechanisms: they go into denial, they become more fundamentalist, they try to find values they can hold onto to ward off evil. They cling and become ultra-nationalist. There's more ethnic prejudice, racial prejudice, and antisemitism. It all increases, because this fear isn't just in us; it's a common thing.
These changes are happening very rapidly. People respond with fear, and the question we must ask ourselves today is, "Is there any place you can stand inside yourself where you don't freak out, where you can be quiet enough to hear the predicament and find a way to act in a way that is at least not contributing to the further destabilization?"
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