THE SOCIAL ORDER
Sir,—Society as we know it today consists of seven great mechanisms, arranged In the following order of dominancefinance, industry, sanctions, administration, politics, education, religion. An absolutely inverted order of society, and If the readers of your paper will reverse it, they will put these social mechanisms into their natural or correct order. Thomas Robertson, in his book, “ Human Ecology (The Science of Social Adjustment),’’ writes: ‘‘The basic flaw, which Is responsible for this tragic inversion, and which is the source of the terrible amount of human dissatisfaction, frustration. and finally disease, lies in a special variety of human ignorance. It is, in short, the product of an erroneous mental approach to events whereby any real'measure of control over them is impossible.—l am, etc., A Reader.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19500512.2.114.8
Bibliographic details
Otago Daily Times, Issue 27387, 12 May 1950, Page 6
Word Count
128THE SOCIAL ORDER Otago Daily Times, Issue 27387, 12 May 1950, Page 6
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Otago Daily Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.