The Stable Society

The Stable Society - cover - as published by The Wadebridge Press in 1978.

The family basis of social structure - the family in its various forms is the universal basis of all human societies. However the modern family has so weakened that society has become "simply a mass of socially unrelated individuals among whom a semblance of order, however superficial, can only be maintained by means of increasingly powerful external or asystemic controls: bureaucracies, dictators ... ". This version was published as Chapter 2 of "The Stable Society" by Edward Goldsmith, The Wadebridge Press 1978. It was originally published in two parts in The Ecologist, Vol. 1 No. 1 and Vol. 1 No. 2, 1976.