Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if they destroy the canon or rewrite the fairy stories or act like Red Guards.

The Roman Catholic Church early on simply adapted the hierarchical structure of the Roman Empire and confused the whole thing. Vertical attention and hierarchy were so entangled, that when the French killed the king during the Revolution, they lost much of their vertical attention too.

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.

If you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one of the Indian casinos. The Native Americans, who stand for vertical thinking more than anyone else in our culture, have been setting up totally flat casinos for honkies.

In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.

The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?