Its
end results have always included civil and inter-group war
with its unavoidable costs in destruction, dissolution and
death.
2. _The effort to grab and keep, with its accompanying competition,
is a chief source of social progress._ The game of
grab and keep is play for children. Mature human beings
should strive to create, produce, share.
3. _The accumulation of goods and services brings happiness._
At the out-set of life this may be true. But accumulation
for its own sake produces the miser. Misers are not happy
people. Riches yield happiness only as they are distributed.
Accumulation brings many headaches, and few abiding
satisfactions.
4. _Successful accumulators "have fun."_ Perhaps they do, for
a time, at the expense of others on whose backs they ride
and whose life blood they suck. But mature men and
women do not "have fun"; they shoulder and carry their
share of social responsibility.
5. _Progress can be measured by the multitude of personal
possessions._ Not so. True progress for humanity consists
in movement from having to doing; from the possessive to
the creative; from the material toward the spiritual.
Ideologies have played a role in determining the structure and function
of every civilization. As civilization grows up, matures, and declines,
ideologies change with the changing times. In its early history each
civilization seeks acceptance for its picture of reality and its
techniques for reaching individual and social goals.
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