ABSTRACT
In 1974 the author flew over the wide Pacific to the flourishing East-West Center in Hawaii to lecture on popular culture and the New Order. By then the frontier had become mythic, encapsulating the opposition of good versus bad, East versus West, nostalgia versus change. The “economic miracle of East Asia” could not hide the increasing troubles and ferment in many other parts of Asia. Things were getting worse in the Middle East and in the area formerly called the U.S.S.R. Russia, stripped of its many satellite states and communist governmental controls, was moving from bad to worse. The East and West had not joined hands; instead they seemed to be at each other’s throats. Some say the frontier has since then moved to outer space; but the author suggested we forget the old frontier, that we seek it elsewhere—to the far west of America’s Far West—across the vast Pacific Ocean to what we have long called the Far East.
