It is a recreational tool to be used when all your other needs are taken care of. That's an ugly thought, and possibly untrue, but it may explain Michael Butler's belief in a monarchist government. First, the party world, where he hung with Audrey Hepburn, Hunter Thompson and Mick Jagger. The political world, where he counted the Kennedys, King Hussein of Jordan and the Shah of Iran among his friends, was of equal importance. And it is from this universe that he draws his two opposite philosophies.
Hair IS the sixties.
It is the embodiment of everything the people of his generation had gone through and fought for. And, according to Michael Butler, Hair has the power to save the world. Sure, it sounds corny, but it also has the ingredients to do just that. Imagine a world where everyone did, in fact, love each other. A world where we did give peace a chance.