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I see your point. I counter with: Societies abhor power vacuums. Someone will fill that niche. So, increased accountability is what's needed. More good newspa
by fifteen1506 3y ago
I see your point.
I counter with: Societies abhor power vacuums. Someone will fill that niche.
So, increased accountability is what's needed.
More good newspapers/magazines with good research/investigation. More literacy. More time to do those things. More money to support good work.
- verisimi 3y agoI see the vacuum issue with societies. But this talks to the heart of the issue - who has authority over the individual? Is a social structure (laws, convention, the understood history provided by that society, religion etc) superior to an individual and their lived experience? Can we say it is right for society to forcibly extract wealth and resources from those it purports to govern, for the greater good? Or is all that self-serving nonsense, to justify slavery? And then you might wonder what the purpose of this experience is for oneself. Is it to accommodate oneself to power in the best way one can, accepting it as inevitable, thereby tacitly consenting to the system we find? Or do we even embrace the system, to get all the goodies we can? Or does one grasp at something more intangible such as doing right and being guided by truth and love, trying to recover or even improve one's soul?
- fifteen1506 3y agoYou're thinking too much. People crave confort. Be it a god, a church, the state or a feudal lord who promises everything will be alright.