“But if we try to conceal from our own people or from our allies the full measure of our misfortune, or permit ourselves to seek relief in any reactions of blunder or petulance or hysteria, we can easily find this crisis resolving itself into an irreparable deterioration of our world position- and of our confidence [...]
“This society bears the seeds of its own horrors- unbreathable air, undrinkable water, starvation- and until people realize that we have to get to a much simpler way of life, a much smaller population, a society in which the agrarian component is far greater in relation to the urban component- until these appreciations become widespread [...]
“People like myself can[not] view this [student unrest] from some sort of smug Olympian detachment, as though it were not our responsibility, as though it were not in part our own ugly and decadent face that we see in this distorted mirror.”
Kennan in his 1968 book Democracy and the Student Left