Society As An End And As A Means!!

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Rishika Rishi
Mar 17, 2019   •  3 views

For thousands upon thousands of years mankind degraded itself - by habit, by inertia, because it was the obvious - to live according to a social system that came from prehistory itself, a way of coexistence which the hominids had inherited from their irrational ancestors and that they handed down to their descendants on which the faculty of reason was increasingly prevailing until it became, through continued evolution, the distinguishing characteristic of the species.

By the time this distinguishing quality predominated, the existing type of prehistoric

coexistence had hardened around society, obliging its members to obey and behave within a rigid straitjacket of social stratums, groups and interests. The ruling elites were able to consolidate their own lineage and privileges by means of the power positions they held and any other way of compulsion they were able to impose through threats, laws and open violence. This allowed them to keep for themselves any new knowledge obtained, which they then used to subject the general population even more to their immoral system. The Egyptian priestly-princely caste and the full length of the Middle

Ages are just a few of a long string of patterns that the reader can find in any book of history.
Even today does this kind of structure reign in most countries, with an all- powerful leadership and a general population obliged to obey. This is a social structure proper to termites, its most evident examples being those societies ruled in the past and the present by Stalitlers, the despots and tyrants of every kind and color.

Hence, through thousands upon thousands of years the general population came to accept, again by fear, by habit, by inertia, because it

was so obvious, the rule of those in power, for the possibility that another way of life would be possible was unknown to them, with the most desperate escaping or emigrating to those areas of the planet where the situation looked as being a little less cruel. In general, however, the subjects accepted the fact that this was the structure that had to prevail, a structure where those in power ruled and the servile obeyed, thus constantly reinforcing the existing vicious circle. Even today we can hear voices demanding that "this or that cannot be left uncontrolled. Someone must rule..." or "There should be a law..."

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