ABSTRACT
One postulates the society's creation and control of members; the other postulates the people's creation and control of their society. A stunted or narrow conception of the human potential, especially when deeply built into cultural norms and reinforced by a society's art and science and philosophy, is as narrow a form of tyranny as any political institution. Feminism has raised the issue that in our present society women are put down and all that is female is downgraded. In a future humanistic society, they say, that could easily continue. David Wright therefore argues that it is worth contending for a society where this happens more readily - a society where the positive nature of human needs is better recognized. Wright makes an important distinction between indoctrinated control and voluntary cooperation as a basis for social order, and argues that the former comes essentially from the middle levels of development, and holds people back at those levels.
