Society: The Product

Posted on August 2, 2004
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When a society becomes compartmentalised, it ceases to function correctly as a whole. Due to our nature of categorising every life detail, and putting these details into their own segments…our reality view has also become segmented.

Democracy has laudable goals; but in and of itself alone - like any and all other systems – ultimately, it can only be fruitless…

We assume the product of our lives to be based upon physical results of physical systems; in so doing we make a critical mistake. We view our life as a _product_.

A product has its design laid out for it; a product conforms to a pre-described set of rules. When we base our lives purely upon _rules_, we are in essence giving up our free will - and basing our existence upon external factors. With these external factors, we may view them in a number of ways. 1: Unchangeable, 2: Changeable to a limited extent, 3: Totally changeable.

Thus we believe that with altering external circumstances, we can alter the essence of our self , and thus our life existence.

Naturally, different individuals will place a same subject into different categories resulting upon their own personal disposition. So then; elections most commonly will fall into categories 2 and 3. That is to say, these categories would claim that a physical change in what we perceive to be the top of our society - can bring about an alteration within the fundamental aspects of our very existance.

However we have a dualistic perception of society. True society is comprised of people; their beliefs, desires, emotions, goals, passions etc. Thus true society is a reflection of ourselves; an individual has a society of one, based upon their own world view. A society of one million is a society created from one million reflections of self. Thus true society is purely non-physical and ethereal in origin, but in our lack of desire to admit the existence of the non-physical - we place the structure of society upon purely physical factors (which of course we state are _external_ to us).

This has two immediate results: First; it places responsibility and thus the burden of society away from us as an individual. Second; this enables us to further avoid self-reflection and thus create what we call “blame”…which we can then divert at all the external factors that have been created by use of the aforementioned means in the first stage.

This then, results in the creation of the second aspect of our dualistic society. This second aspect is based upon physicality: systems, policy, religion, law, rules, politics, government etc. It is this secondary physical aspect of society – which due to our failure to recognize our self as responsible – we believe to be the basis of society. In actuality this aspect is a _systematic society_.

“Physicalism”:http://www.thethoughts.co.uk/thoughts/physicalism.htm and “general consensus”:http://www.thethoughts.co.uk/thoughts/massconsciousness.htm tell us that if we change a part within systematic society then we can bring change to society as a whole. Therefore we conclude that if we change a rule, or a policy – we can change the fundamentals of our culture. With a change of political party by means of election we believe we can drastically alter our lives.

There is of course an element of truth to this; however it is a skewered perception. The nature of systematic society means that any changes that occur within it can only serve the system itself. For example, changing a law on gay marriage – whilst allowing or disallowing such marriage – will not alter the fundamental beliefs of true society. Instead a change in rule only alters systematic society, simply because all it does is alter the rules upon which that system is based.

True change in society occurs when individuals undergo a shift in belief and perception. In a previous age an individual may have believed in slavery; in a latter age that belief changes. Thus the consensus on slavery changes…this then brings a change within true society. Eventually _systematic society_ has to alter in order to reflect this change, if systematic society does not change then it becomes redundant as the people move away from its confines in order to maintain their beliefs (true society) .

When a peoples begin to believe that systematic society is true society, they trap themselves within the confines of an artificial construct. When a mind is held fast by physical rules and principles it loses its ability to evolve; it becomes stagnant. Thus in such confinment we arrive back at the aforementioned categories as the only percieved possibities within the system. 1: Unchangeable, 2: Changeable to a limited extent, 3: Totally changeable.

An individual within a systematic society – in order to avoid feeling trapped by a system, will apply the above categories to that system. We believe that an election can bring change to true society, when in fact all it can do is bring alteration to _systematic_ society.

Civilisation will truly change when people undergo the next alteration of belief and perception; when we recognise that rules, law, materialistics, physicality etc. are but one aspect of our lives. When this occurs we will begin to look elsewhere in reality, and step outside of our current limited beliefs. At that point true society will undergo a massive change in paradigm.

Systematic Society will then have to choose whether it wishes to confine this change – or go along with it. Its only other choice begin to be made redundant.

True Society is comprised of the people and exists to serve the people. Systematic society is comprised of the systems under which we live – this too should exist to serve the people. When we turn our back on our true natures, and believe the system to be society then the result can only be that the people exist to serve the system. Ultimately we become its product.

However a mind that opens itself up beyond the confines of systematic society discovers the ability to separate “self” from “system”.

Marcus - 2004