ABSTRACT
The debacle of the Vietnam War has manifested a number of massive and startling effects, including the fall of the Johnson government four years after its great affirmation of power, a systemic weakening of the American economy, aggravation of the hostility of the Negro and poor citizens, and alienation of the best part of the youth. A most remarkable figment of the present sociopolitical situation is that, if it comes, the revolution well may be from the top. It may be a peaceful revolution of the bureaucracy, in time to forestall a violent revolution from the bottom. The conscious separation from what exists and self-projection toward what is intended give the existentialists a definition of man's freedom. Such liberty is the indispensable condition of all action. Throughout the existentialist literature, there is a dominant theme: choice. All leaders know the anguish of choice.
