"... You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything ..."

Ever since the days of Urukagina and before, men and women have lived in conditions of relative freedom and relative imposed restraint. People have been more or less free; but never, as a species, totally or universally free.

In primitive times, the primary concern would not have been to attain freedom. The primary concern of early men and women would have been focused on survival, and the organizational activities that would enable them first to survive, and eventually, to improve their situation.

To this end, through the ages, human organizational arrangements of every variety and hue have been devised and tried, including, predominantly, organizations which depend heavily upon the coercion and forceful restraint of their members.

When the imperative is survival, such organization is viewed with some tolerance, even by those victimized by it. Any tool, it is thought, that will provide me my daily bread, and stave off the dangers of a cold, cruel world, is certainly worth some occasional hardship or intrusion.

As human civilizations have progressed, however, and the survival imperative has become less and less immediate, people have begun to concern themselves more and more with questions of personal fulfillment and freedom.