More positively, these stories provided enough societal continuity for some developments that spanned generations to take root.

In doing so, they will leave the certainty of 20th century political ideologies behind, and admit to the open-ended and uncertain process of societal co-authorship.

If those who hope to engage in the revision of our societal models are not educated by those who developed what is already in place, they will spend most of their time inefficiently reverse-engineering existing structures in an effort to understand them.

Using the logic of a computer programmer, when we find we can't solve a problem by attacking one level of societal software, we proceed to the next level down.

Most later essential societal changes are the result of internal development and not of aggression from without.