One could say that a measure of how free a society is… is the degree by which it approximates itself to the Prime Law. The two extremes on a scale of such an approximation would be the comparison of North Korea to the United States. North Korea is an example of the destruction of The Prime Law to the extremist degree possible; one could hardly imagine North Korea pushing this extreme much further, without imploding on itself. One can hardly imagine the horror of living in a society where the ego is so utterly destroyed… where all one does is praise the ‘Dear Leader’ from dawn till dusk. Both societies do have one thing in common… neither have explicitly identified the Prime Law. That is what is necessary… until a society consciously and explicitly identifies this law and applies it… it will always have the potential to slide down the scale from freedom to tyranny. Craig H.