"Ideal-planning drops the feasible and the realistic, and attempts to define purposes that could hold if such restraints were removed. In a sense it is 'timeless' planning, because its vision may be a forever vision. But through it the unfolding can begin in earnest because its questions become more comprehensive: Why so many malnourished babies? Why the military build-up? Why so many dreary lives? Because, says objectives planning, there is no feasible way of changing these conditions. Such a reply - to the ideal planner - is based on a given, not on imagination."

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