When I say society is against people, I do not mean people should oppose society. I mean people could start acting more independently of it. Be more self sufficient. Act in ways that obviate it.
I bring this up because for anyone who looks carefully at society, without prejudice, can quickly see that the bigger society becomes, the more it harms the people it has power over.
What is society? Like Maggie once said, it does not exist - "There is no such thing as society.". It is just an image that a large group of people with the greatest power over other groups, created, to administer itself. Always with a mantra of being here to help, or to save us, or to protect.
And the consequence of this aspirational image is to do more harm than if the image was never created at all.
Religious people might say this is a Jesuit approach. But I am not religious and am just pointing at it for further scrutiny. Just in case all the alternatives to it, are worse. We cannot know this scientifically or even legally because the alternatives have never been tried yet. And science or history says nothing about the situation prior to society which is anything other than wild speculation.
It would be a straw man to call me a Jesuit because I am not religious. And I think the Jesuit would disagree with me about society being just an image.
When I say society 'is' the problem not the solution, I do so because I want to set up a dialogue about it. A dialogue is an activity where all beliefs and images presently leading our thought, can be 'suspended' for long enough to look at the thing.
Suspending beliefs during a dialogue means the thing can be looked at for the first time without judgement. And this creates an opportunity to see the thing for what it actually is, in and of itself, maybe for the very first time. Whereas judgement through 'debate' is always coloured by prejudiced beliefs and images where conflict is always the result through the inevitable incoherence of thought.
Recently I asked the government to set up a petition to make it known to the United States that the United Kingdom was up for sale to them. The intent was in totality to create an opportunity for dialogue on our version of society in the UK - to have it observed, free from judgement, for the first time.
After 3 months I received a rejection form their standards body saying: