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Sarge
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Sarge asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 7 years ago

How would you simplify all of society?

I figure in terms of anarchy vs totalitarianism, kind of like a slider, but I know there is a lot more too it than that. I'm trying to find a way to envision the world in a way that makes sense from both Karl Marx and Ayn Rand...any thoughts?

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  • 7 years ago
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    Everybody has to wear the same clothes like in the futuristic sci-fi movies.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    A gradient is what you are referring to. To see in Rand's and Marx's perspective, is quite simple. Really a society is group of people being satisfied by the material exchanges of self-interest. The two are easily complimentary, on altruism vs. egoism. What you see as totalitarianism and true democracy might be presented in a spectrum of selfishness vs. social-interest, but than there are the contradictions of a beneficent dictator vs. a highly irrational majority. Attempt simplicity, because its easy to recall?

    Source(s): Flips Again.
  • 7 years ago

    It's highly impossible to get a system that satisfies people and the Ruler by simultaneously getting a good growth, a only possible event is dissociating world into many small pieces then you can attain a good government but you could not satisfy the security of nation so I suggest you to kindly note that Human Beings are social "ANIMALS" .

  • 7 years ago

    I don't know about all that...but, I would try to invent something that would make it impossible to lie. I know it's impossible(like releasing an agent into the atmosphere or sending a signal on a certain frequency, etc...sci fi stuff)...but I figured this was all hypothetical. Anyway, without deception, that should clear up about 95% of the problems and waste of time, energy, and money.

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  • 38lsb
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    Humans are inherently self-centered and eventually all forms of government fails. In the end a form of totalitarianism is usually present as a last attempt to hold things together.

  • 7 years ago

    The bigger things get, the harder they are to control. Regardless of strength of one man or ability of all men, we are not a super organism, we're not like ants. We have opinions, and eventually the well developed mind begins to look outward. In other words, I'd sum up modern society today as a ticking time bomb, just waiting for the right a$$hole to kick it.

  • Uuftk
    Lv 4
    7 years ago

    our society is not free, because the minds of our society are not free. we are influenced to believe that the world revolves around us, leading us to become the greatest consumers. at a young age we are taught what they want us to know, we are told how to live by the standards made, and we follow like a herd of sheep. this is what they'd like though, corporations, government, etc. but they have no power without us. they are all illusions, yet we give them power. society is simply dorothy being bamboozled by oz from behind the curtain.

  • Mike W
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Get rid of all the unnecessary and cumbersome rules of society, and get rid of unnecessary laws. The problem with that is that we have too many weasels in society always trying to pull one over on people, and we have too many control freaks who have to be in charge of everything.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Answer: Why do we need

    a government if we have the internet?

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