Their wealth can control power. Such control is a form of corruption and a capitalist society is made worse by corruption. The influence of religion on Western nations had declined several centuries before the Industrial Revolution and whatever good values existed in the religion embraced by the Western people could not modify their capitalist attitudes. Spirituality had no place and no power to pull those societies back to the right path. At first it was only the women agitating for equal voting rights, but today the demands for equality have increased.
Women wear their hair long, so men also wear their hair long.
In their demonstrations, they tried to make out that they were driven by compassion for the Vietnamese, who were being victimized by American military power. Their demonstrations culminated in the burning of their draft cards, so that they would not have to register for military service. This was their real motive. Clearly, their demonstrations were not motivated by compassion but by self-interest. The stringent discipline makes it impossible to oppose the leader and difficult to recognize wrongdoing for what it is at the time it is perpetrated.