The modern realization that the world has come to consist of many social groups in close interaction forces all but the most reactionary members of “the civilized world” to accept the possibility that differences between social groups force a prima facia moral relativity. At best, they can only struggle to achieve some sort of synthesis. But the entire idea of group cohesion depends on doing just the opposite. It depends upon giving one’s own group the emotional allegiance appropriate to a “universal good”.

To try to bring an end to the “ten conditions” is to abandon all of those who seek to belong to a life-meaningful group to float along extremely susceptible to capture by still less savory groups. We should admit to ourselves that few of us are up to the task of living entirely independent mental and emotional existences. People generally crave the security and emotional satisfaction of belonging. It is difficult to picture “new leaders” who can create a “genuine universal good”. All the same problems somehow must first be overcome in order to begin to be able to overcome the problems, as it were.