Shaping Our Future. Now the analogy is fairly loose. Civilization happened because we ran out of unoccupited, prime real estate. And the third alternative that is posed is dispensed with by pretending that it is utopic.
Real communities exist.
They rely as well on institutions, rules regarding approved, permitted, and proscribed behavior, and rewards and sanctions enforcing the rules. And therefore, unless the term is explicitly redefined, we can presume that a community of communities will also have to rely on institutions, rules regarding approved, permitted, and proscribed behavior, and rewards and sanctions enforcing the rules. So in transforming the third alternative into a utopian fantasy, W. Warren Wagar evades addressing it as it was posed, and replaces it with an alternative that is much easier to dismiss. It may well be that case that some proponents of the third alternative engage in sloppy thinking about it. It would not, in fact, be surprising if many proponents for each of the three alternatives presented engage in sloppy thinking about their favored alternatives.