In 'Radical Progress - The Only Way Forward' (2003) the author has gone into the distinctions between church hegemonic/state subordinate and state hegemonic/church subordinate societies in no uncertain terms, outlining the different ideals and fates which appertain to them with a logical consistency that leaves one in no doubt as to the relative value of each type of society, whether rising diagonally under male domination or falling diagonally under female domination, and making a conclusive case for that society which has the capacity to lead people higher, as though to something posterior to the world, rather than simply to rule over them from an anterior height in polar opposition to something lower that is nevertheless distinct from the kind of lowness obtaining across the great axial divide of 'the world', as explained in this most definitive and outstanding of John O'Loughlin's texts to-date.