Men's ways of ordering their common lives have broken down so disastrously as to make hope precarious. So headlong and pervasive is change today that... historical parallels are decreasingly relevant... because so many of the variables in the situation have altered radically .... Professor James T. Shotwell recently characterized "the anarchy we are living in today" as "the most dangerous since the fall of Rome." R. LvD, KNoWIDGE FOR WHAT 2, 11 (1939). 2 An analysis involving long-term trends in youth gang violence and periodically recurrent representations of such violence as a new phenomenon engendered by contemporary conditions is included in Miller, American Youth Gangs: Past and Present, in A. BLUM-33EtG, ISSUES IN CHImoLoGY (in preparation).
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