ECONOMIC. a) A comprehensive social-welfare program, directed toward
maximum improvement of general conditions of human life. b) A giant open-
end space research program, aimed at unreachable targets. c) A permanent,
ritualized, ultra-elaborate disarmament inspection system, and variants of such a
system.
POLITICAL a) An omnipresent, virtually omnipotent international police force.
b) An established and recognized extraterrestrial menace. c) Massive global
environmental pollution. d) Fictitious alternate enemies.
SOCIOLOGICAL: CONTROL FUNCTION. a) Programs generally derived from
the Peace Corps model. b) A modern, sophisticated form of slavery.
MOTIVATIONAL FUNCTION. a) Intensified environmental pollution. b) New
religions or other mythologies. c) Socially oriented blood games. d)
Combination forms.
ECOLOGICAL. A comprehensive program of applied eugenics.
CULTURAL. No replacement institution offered. SCIENTIFIC. The secondary
requirements of the space research, social welfare, and / or eugenics programs.
SUBSTITUTES FOR THE FUNCTIONS OF WAR: EVALUATION
The models listed above reflect only the beginning of the quest for substitute
institutions for the functions of war, rather than a recapitulation of alternatives.
It would be both premature and inappropriate, therefore, to offer final
judgments on their applicability to a transition to peace and after. Furthermore,
since the necessary but complex project of correlating the compatibility of
proposed surrogates for different functions could be treated only in exemplary
fashion at this time, we have elected to withhold such hypothetical correlations
as were tested as statistically inadequate.
Nevertheless, some tentative and cursory comments on these proposed function-
al "solutions" will indicate the scope of the difficulties involved in this area of
peace planning.
ECONOMIC. The social-welfare model cannot be expected to remain outside
the normal economy after the conclusion of its predominantly capital-
investment phase; its value in this function can therefore be only temporary.
maximum improvement of general conditions of human life. b) A giant open-
end space research program, aimed at unreachable targets. c) A permanent,
ritualized, ultra-elaborate disarmament inspection system, and variants of such a
system.
POLITICAL a) An omnipresent, virtually omnipotent international police force.
b) An established and recognized extraterrestrial menace. c) Massive global
environmental pollution. d) Fictitious alternate enemies.
SOCIOLOGICAL: CONTROL FUNCTION. a) Programs generally derived from
the Peace Corps model. b) A modern, sophisticated form of slavery.
MOTIVATIONAL FUNCTION. a) Intensified environmental pollution. b) New
religions or other mythologies. c) Socially oriented blood games. d)
Combination forms.
ECOLOGICAL. A comprehensive program of applied eugenics.
CULTURAL. No replacement institution offered. SCIENTIFIC. The secondary
requirements of the space research, social welfare, and / or eugenics programs.
SUBSTITUTES FOR THE FUNCTIONS OF WAR: EVALUATION
The models listed above reflect only the beginning of the quest for substitute
institutions for the functions of war, rather than a recapitulation of alternatives.
It would be both premature and inappropriate, therefore, to offer final
judgments on their applicability to a transition to peace and after. Furthermore,
since the necessary but complex project of correlating the compatibility of
proposed surrogates for different functions could be treated only in exemplary
fashion at this time, we have elected to withhold such hypothetical correlations
as were tested as statistically inadequate.
Nevertheless, some tentative and cursory comments on these proposed function-
al "solutions" will indicate the scope of the difficulties involved in this area of
peace planning.
ECONOMIC. The social-welfare model cannot be expected to remain outside
the normal economy after the conclusion of its predominantly capital-
investment phase; its value in this function can therefore be only temporary.
