ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that first appeared in Academic Questions and the material used is reproduced with the permission of Springer Verlag. The nearest civilization members have come to a realization of this kind of sociocultural system has been the free democratic societies of northern Europe. But this is an almost impossibly difficult world to live in; it is totally foreign to that tribal default nature at the center of civilization members being. It can be made to work, but it is a constant juggling act along the razor's edge. Civilization members should teach their civilization not as a settled doctrine but as a risky enterprise that indeed requires eternal vigilance and eternal renewal. Civilization members should teach it as a society approaching that rare balancing act on the razor's edge: a society in which everything should be open to question and where no one has the last word.
