My major was sociology until I changed it to geology and I remember my soc teacher
making a point about an abandoned car at the side of the road (I like these examples
so much better than esoteric ones that cant be proved or disproved) and the time frame
and events that happened within the time frame. First the car was noted as abandoned
by people driving the route after one day, then the second day passes and it becomes
apparent that this abandoned vehicle is not going to be claimed and the destruction
begins: maybe a tire is stolen, then windows are broken, then in an final orgy of
the car being set on fire. This example was supposed to represent the failure of the
commons in English history. If it belongs to nobody, then it is fair game for
everybody. Extending this thinking a little further, one can see why families needs
are ignored when government social programs fail to provide for their existance.
Ergo, the crisises in Sundan, people are seen as "throw-aways"
by their
governments.
While we here in the US see ourselves are being part of our government and hence not
in danger of being "disposable", the conrumdum exists that we are only being taken
care of so that we may consume and make profits for the corporations that needs us to
provide consumption. Once civilizations pass from being new into settled, the
populace serves the reiforce the existing beaucracy. In our society it is to provide
consumption so that others may profit. Ancient Sparta's populace served to provide
men for war. There are no societies that exist to provide for their children, as much
as we would like to believe that. That is a fallacy that serves to perpetuate our
belief in our humaneness and allow us to reconcile our supposed beliefs with out
obvious discrepancies.
Speaking of "free will" in a context in which society enforces its beliefs by
withholding jobs or choices of housing by limiting income is an exercise in arragance
by people who have never had to make choices that depend on accepting consequences
that forego partaicipating in normal society.
In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, he sees just that. There is no free will if one's
will is in opposition to the majority. There is only madness or suicide.
Thoughts?
ks
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