In Their Own Words

Many observers of the world scene in recent decades have raised questions about Western civilization. They see us locked in tangles of inconsistent intentions and self-contradictory efforts to remedy growing problems. This development may be an inevitable consequence of the deterioration of first principles as their implications are drawn out over time. The process is one in which people acting to maximize individual and social purposes competitively reinterpret their perceptions of reality until the culture stagnates from a deficiency of common purpose.