“knows so many objects that seem desirable but for which he is not permitted to grasp, and he cannot see how other beneficial features of his environment depend on the discipline to which he is forced to submit – a discipline forbidding him to reach out for these same appealing objects. Disliking these constraints so much, we can hardly be said to have selected them; rather, these constraints selected us: they enabled us to survive.” Hayek says that the evolutionary process of the extended order can be stimulated by increases in individual freedom and has even realized some of its greatest advances during times of anarchy, however it can (and quite often has throughout history) been hindered by government constraint. He continues: "Protection of several property, not the direction of its use by government, laid the foundations for the growth of the dense network of exchange of services that shaped the extended order." The extended order is "not a creation of man's reason but a distinct second endowment conferred on him by cultural evolution." Hayek posits that, since it is not genetically transferred, the continuing cultural evolution of the extended order requires teaching & passing on to each new generation the prevailing traditions, customs, morality & rules. This cultural evolutionary requirement was also analyzed by Will and Ariel Durant who said: "Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again." See also Catallactics Free Market Spontaneous order References External links Austrian School Friedrich Hayek Self-organization Systems theory Libertarian theory Human evolution Economic sociology Political science