02/17/08 Future Building Questions 001

Warning: These questions are intended for use in writing fiction.
They are not suitable for construction of real-world utopias. If used
to design Role Playing Games, proper results are not guaranteed.
Investments based on these questions are guaranteed to make a small
fortune only if you start with a large fortune.

1. Which theory of society do you believe:

a) Society is an organic whole whose parts work together.

b) Society is made up of competing groups.

c) Society is made up of competing ideas.

d) Society is continuously constructed and reconstructed as people
respond to what they think the words and actions of others mean.

e) Society is run by secret masters, benevolent or malevolent.

f) Other.

2. You see history as being:

a) A rise toward greater and higher civilization.

b) Bound by rigid cycles; for example, the United States will last as a
civilization exactly as long as the Roman Empire did.

c) Cyclic, but the cycles are rather looser.