Abstract

VII: An Economic Security Plan

The existing socioeconomic system is outmoded by abundance. Until recently an attitude of passive acceptance of the incongruities and maladjustments in the socioeconomic system was still held to be defensible. As long as little evidence was yet available on the vast changes taking place, the "history-tells-us" type of reassurances offered by the Passive Acceptors seemed to be based on reasonable judgments. As the dynamic of the scientific and technological revolution moves irresistibly forward, their ideal world of the past becomes ever further separated from them in time and technological distance, and their effort to reach it by means of an ever-increasing number of minor socioeconomic modifications becomes ever more frustrating.