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tom sarbeck posted an update 8 years, 10 months ago
Isn’t the point of a society to protect and provide for its members?
Matt, societies are formed by a very few self-interested leaders. They need common folk to fight their wars and have to reward those who survive.
The leaders then have to make large numbers of common folk governable. This requires a combination of rewards, fraud and oppression.
(I submitted the above as a reply but then couldn’t find it.)
Hi Tom, I can’t seem to find the original thread at all. In any case, I disagree that societies are necessarily formed by self-interested leaders. I do think that self-interested leaders will naturally try to attain leadership positions so that they can serve their own interests (and that most politicians fit this description).
Think about it from the perspective of what might of been the very first society, several small families of nomads coming together for safety… it would happen absent the presence of any strong leadership, solely due to it’s obvious benefit to the members of the group. That’s what society is! The presence of self-serving leadership only means that the society produces an abundance of resources to misuse.