III. Cloze The individual’s striving for his own gain without equal emphasis on social (26) no longer automatically brings good to the community. (27) , this type of individual competitiveness—in which for you to fail in a deal is (28) me to succeed, since it pushes me ahead in the scramble up the ladder— (29) many psychological problems. It makes every man the potential enemy of his neighbor; it generates much interpersonal hostility and (30) and increases greatly our anxiety and isolation from each other. As his hostility has come closer to the surface in recent decades we have tried to cover it up by various devices—by becoming “joiners” of all sorts of service organizations, by being good fellows, well liked by all, and so on. But the conflicts sooner or later (31) .