ABSTRACT
As Professor Alistair M. Taylor has so graphically suggested, people’s physical contiguity extends beyond “impleted” space in virtue of means of communication to include “expleted” space. He has graphically shown us that the “impleted” and the “expleted” spaces of today’s societies are far greater than were those of primitive societies. On the level of societal cybernetics, men have begun to assume control over the evolutionary process, especially by means of technology. From the viewpoint of intersocietal dialectics, then, evolution takes the form of a gradualism that appeals to those with a vested interest in the status quo, whereas revolution takes the form of an action-oriented program of liberation deemed necessary precisely because of the power-brokers’ quasi-theological insistence upon their own historical inevitability. The function of societal antagonists differs according to the type of social system against which they are reacting.
