had never been invented there
   would have been no conflict and no frustration generated by them.)
   
   49. For primitive societies the natural world (which usually changes
   only slowly) provided a stable framework and therefore a sense of
   security. In the modern world it is human society that dominates
   nature rather than the other way around, and modern society changes
   very rapidly owing to technological change. Thus there is no stable
   framework.
   
   50. The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of
   traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological
   progress and economic growth. Apparently it never occurs to them that
   you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the
   economy of a society with out causing rapid changes in all other
   aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably
   break down traditional values.
   
   51.The breakdown of traditional values to some extent implies the
   breakdown of the bonds that hold together traditional small-scale
   social groups. The disintegration of small-scale social groups is also
   promoted by the fact that modern conditions often require or tempt
   individuals to move to new locations, separating themselves from their
   communities. Beyond that, a technological society HAS TO weaken family
   ties and local communities if it is to function efficiently. In modern
   society an individual's loyalty must be first to the system and only
   secondarily to a small-scale community, because if the internal
   loyalties of small-scale small-scale communities were stronger than
   loyalty to the system, such communities would pursue their own
   advantage at the expense of the system.
   
   52. Suppose that a public official or a corporation executive appoints
   his cousin, his friend or his co-religionist to a position rather than
   appointing the person best qualified for the job. He ha