The development of these focuses, though intertwined, is very different in the advancement of each over the years. While we have made continual and great advances over controlling the nature, the management of human relations is not doing well at all. .
Freud believes that if there was a great improvement in the way we handle human relations, civilization would be freed of its dissatisfactions. This he says can be done by getting rid of coercion and suppression of instincts, and allowing men to put the time and effort in acquiring wealth as well as enjoying it. Nevertheless, he still points out that even without coercion there will still be those whose destructive, anti-social, and anti-cultural behavior will cause problems, especially if this group is big in number. So here, he presents a vague advice of reducing the burden of instinctual sacrifices imposed on men, but he acknowledges that it is impossible to do it without the control of the mass. This means that individuals, who possess the superior insight into the necessities of life and who have mastered their own instinctual wishes, would be needed as leaders. Freud points that the two biggest reasons that some degree of coercion is necessary is due to our nature of not being spontaneously fond of work, and due to that fact that arguments are of no purpose against our passions. The possibility of such cultural regulations depends on the leaders, not to mention the great amount of coercion that is inevitable in carrying this plan out. Granted some people will remain asocial the goal, as Freud points out, is to reduce the majority that is hostile toward civilization to a minority. .
Freud goes into explaining that as our civilization consists on solely in wealth itself, and it is threatened by rebellions of the people in the civilization. The rebellions are usually about people not being able to deal with certain measures of coercion, which raises the question of how far the prohibition of certain things can take a person.
