There is no need for second worlds to be static and to preserve social and cultural institutions and structures unchanged from one generation to the next. Social orders based on sacred orders are quite capable of internal debate and reform based on the working out in practice of their underlying beliefs; the key is that such changes take place on the basis of accepted sacred authorities. What marks the debates of the present day is that there are no such accepted authorities, and so the cultural game is marked by a continual subversion of stability rather than the establishment of greater
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