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n. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. 2. _Pragmatists_ believe in serving their own interests, on the theory that whatever serves personal interests must have first priority. "What is good for me/us is good for the universe". 3. _Experimentalists_ are prepared to try out any suggestion which promises to achieve the desired goals. Singly and in working teams they test and try out, seeking the most effective means of reaching desired ends. 4. _Innovators_ formulate projects and test out results, checking and rechecking as they search for more effective means of achieving results. 5. _Radicals_ seek out the roots, digging, sifting, classifying, assembling their findings, announcing their conclusions and working to apply them in theory and practice to the structure and function of their communities. 6. _Revolutionists_ are in a hurry. Disillusioned with the past and the present they seek by "direct action" to create a new social order, out of whole cloth, quickly, here and now. Never mind the means, get results! 7. _Totalists_ have the whole truth, attained through reasoning, experimentation, revelation. Having learned the truth, they dedicate their energies to the propagation of the faith. Where they encounter opposition they counter it and, if necessary, annihilate it with its originators and advocates. As a matter of practical experience, proponents of all seven approaches to social problems and social change employ a wide range of techniques from persuasion to coercion. To support their projects they advance logical arguments, elaborate half-truths, make emotional appeal; employ trickery, deceit, preferment, privilege, flattery, soft living, bribery, coercion, physical and social violence--individual and collective extermination. Civilization as reported in history and in its current practice is based on five faulty ideological assumptions: 1. _Competitive survival struggle results in social improvement._ Survival struggle has certainly played a role in stimulating discovery, invention and the diffusion of culture traits. 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 pla
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