Comparison offers one of the best ways to refine one’s understanding of CST’s particular approach and also to give CST’s approach appropriate scrutiny. This section includes pieces that make comparison with various perspectives for understanding the future, other ways of understanding history and cultural evolution, related philosophical/epistomological frames, and other systems perspectives. It also examines various kind of conceptual traps—ways our thinking can go astray as we look to the future—and makes comparison with the ideas of other thinkers.