y 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. As each
civilization declines and disintegrates, a multitude of counselors
clamors for attention to a particular formula that will prove acceptable
and workable in the existing emergent circumstances.

_Part III_

Civilization Is Becoming Obsolete

CHAPTER TEN

WORLDWIDE REVOLUTION DISRUPTS CIVILIZATION

Every organism, mechanism or social construct reaches a point in its
life cycle at which its existing apparatus must be repaired, renovated
and updated or scrapped, redesigned and replaced. Today western
civilization in its totality faces that dilemma.

The culture pattern variously known as European, western or modern
civilization, dating from the Crusades, has existed for about a thousand
years, and spread across the planet. During that millennium western
civilization has passed through a life cycle similar to that of its
predecessors. According to Oswald Spengler's historical perspective, a
civilization passes through its life cycle in about a thousand years. If
the Spenglerian assumption is in line with the course of history,
western civilization should be in an advanced stage of decline and
should eventually disappear as a decisive factor in world affairs.