The basis of Eupsychianism is the philosophy that a better life is to be sought inwardly rather than outwardly.

Eupsychianism is, implicitly, the alternative to and the enemy of Euchronianism.  Whereas Euchronian ideals are directed toward collective man, favoring the group rather than the individual, Eupsychian ideals are intrinsically self-centered and self-limited.  Euchronianism is an extrovert philosophy, Eupsychianism is introverted.

The essential difference between the two opposing philosophies is not a matter of the extent of freedom, but of the very meaning of freedom.

A Euchronian would claim that a man is the product of his environment, and that the enrichment of a man is attainable purely and simply by the enrichment of his environment.  A Euchronian would argue that the perfect freedom is the freedom to manipulate and shape the environment, the freedom of the environment.

A Eupsychian would say that the whole essence of man is the power to transcend his environment, and that capitulation to the forces of the environment is equivalent to the destruction of humanity itself, or at least the subjugation of that humanity to purely mechanical external demands.  A Eupsychian would argue that the only true freedom is freedom from the environment.

Paradoxically, a Euchronian Utopia would probably be very little different in appearance from a Eupsychian.  The difference would lie in its direction of development.  The society of the Euchronian Millennium is by no means anathema to the Eupsychians, who form the principal (minority) opposition to the political arm of the Movement proper.  The difference between the factions is to do with attitudes to people and the functional design of social institutions rather than with the mechanical components of the civition.  Both factions admit to the machines as the ideal means of providing for the basic needs of survival.  But the Enchronians are dedicated to stability - to the management of collective mankind, while the Eupsychians reject any such notion with disdain.  They reject all forms of political and sococial management.

It would be naïve to imagine that the split between the factions as it is reflected in Euchronian society is quite that clear or quite that orderly.  Citizens come in all shades of opinion.  Not everyone would call himself a Euchronian or a Elipsychian, and two men who accepted the same label might have very different views - not only at a trivial level, but in terms of basic priorities.

However, in the context of the Euchronian Millennium, the polarization of political attitudes may be said to fall along the defined spectrum.

The Euchronians, for the most part, regard the Eupsychians as traitors.  There is some justice in this - the Euchronian Movement planned and built the civilization in which they live, and built it by means of absolute dedication on the part of the Plan's participants.  In the eyes of the Euchronians, Euchronianism has proved itself absolutely.

The Eupsychians, on the other hand, see the Euchronians as having become redundant on the day the Millennium was declared.  There is some justice in this too - the society of the Millennium is ultracomfortable, but it must be admitted that there is a surprising amount of unrest and unhappiness.  Despite the fact that no citizen of the Millennium lives in a state of deprivation there is a significant crime rate, and crimes of violence are not uncommon - though the violence involved is usually at a trivial level.  Violence against the machines which provide for the populace is also surprisingly common - and this is occasionally not so trivial.  The Eupsychians claim that now the priority is no longer survival but freedom, then true freedom must be encouraged, not the Euchronian version.  On the other hand, the Euchronians would counter this argument...

The debate, of course, continues.