Counterculture of the 1960s of Timothy Leary to "Turn on, tune in, drop out", hoped to change society by dropping out of it. Looking back on his own life (as a Harvard professor) prior to 1960, Leary interpreted it to have been that of "an anonymous institutional employee who drove to work each morning in a long line of commuter cars and drove home each night and drank martinis ... like several million middle-class, liberal, intellectual robots." As members of the hippie movement grew older and moderated their lives and their views, and especially after US involvement in the Vietnam War ended in the
The Best of New Order track, "Vanishing Point" (from the LP "Technique"), though the song was already popularised as the theme tune to the BBC series "Making Out". Only "Thieves Like Us" (the oldest track included, from 1984) appears in the same form as on the earlier compilation, "Substance". The liner notes (first on a New Order album) were provided by journalist Paul Morley. The US version of the album omits three tracks ("The Perfect Kiss", "Shellshock" and "Thieves Like Us"). This was purportedly due to the band's American label, Qwest, not wishing for some of the singles already included on "Substance" to be duplicated