In our analysis of the natural tendencies of a free society, we posit a political system with a liberal government based on principles discussed previously in pp. 5.2:16-66. (The anarcho-capitalistic alternative will be considered later in the course.) Since such a system could hardly be expected to develop in a cultural vacuum, we can assume that most of the population has at least a partial understanding of the principles of freedom and supports them at least tentatively. We do not assume that all citizens necessarily have a thorough grasp of individualism or a passionate commitment to liberty, however. We are not concerned at this point with how such a society might be achieved or with how problems might be solved in detail in through its institutions, but only with whether or not it is cybernetically stable, in the sense discussed in the last two pages. The domestic and foreign aspects of the free society will be considered in separate (but interrelated) graphs:

1. Domestic Conditions
2. Foreign Relations

As before, we shall develop these graphs step by step, but both graphs can be viewed in their final form by clicking the yellow "Complete Graphs" box on any page.     

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