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	These essays are mainly concerned with ways of improving human life
by introducing new technology.  Any new technology has to develop and survive
in its social and political environment.  Unfortunately, it seems that the
present social and political environment is not very favorable to proposals
to merely improve life.  This is because present political and social thought
is organized around menaces and not around opportunities.  Perhaps I just
haven't read the right literature, but I have not been able to find
a discussion of this point by certified social scientists, so this is
strictly an amateur effort to analyze why this is so and what might be done
about it.

	First let us consider the left-right polarization of politics.  The
left wingers enumerate the following menaces:

	1.