Stanley ("he dead") Kurtz writes: >Some believe that the war itself will
suffice to regenerate the spirit of patriotism and sacrifice that was lost
in the sixties. But the cultural changes of the sixties cannot be explained
simply, or even mostly, by post-war demobilization and prosperity. What
really changed after World War II was the way we lived. The decline of small
towns and the breakup of tightly knit ethnic neighborhoods in cities gave
way to expanding suburbs and impersonal urban apartment complexes. The
heightened cultural individualism that followed is rooted in these changes
in the structure of our lives, and not only in the presence or absence of
war or a national enemy.<here's a problem for the NATIONAL REVIEW think-tanker: the destruction of the communities that he refers to also went along with the larger social process that helped destroy the labor union movement. Jim Devine
