ABSTRACT

This chapter suggests that the appeals to the thinking man to choose his system of government are not ceremonies but actual methods of social control. The legal or economic prophet sincerely believes that he is using a process of analysis and reason to help the thinking man in a voluntary choice of a political or economic creed. Without the almost universal acceptance of the concept of the "thinking man," the debate about the merits of Capitalism vs Fascism would be impossible. The whole rational structure of this debate depends on group free will to choose a "system of government" based on this abstract individual. No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the market place by an idea which belongs in the pulpit; and this is as true of organizations as it is of individuals.