PEDIATRICS Vol. 61 No. 3 March 1978, pp. 510
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IMAGE OF OUR LIFE

Geo. F. Kennan

. . . the way things are proceeding at present produces on the surface of our national life a number of depressing and discreditable phenomena which are visible to the world at large and are genuinely important from the standpoint of our relationships with other peoples. Blighted areas, filthy streets, community demoralization, juvenile delinquency, chaotic traffic conditions, utter disregard for aesthetic and recreational values in urban development, and an obviously unsatisfactory geographic distribution of various facilities for home-life and work and recreation and shopping and worship: these things may not mark all our urban communities in conspicuous degree, but they mark enough of them to put a definite imprint on the image of our life that is carried to the world around us, and this is an imprint that leads others to feel that we are not really the masters of our own fate, that our society is not really under control, that we are being helplessly carried along by forces we do not have the courage or the vitality to master.