The Objective of Society
Philosophically,
there is much impetus and purchase drafted upon the insular mind to try and
place an objective and vision to every task, day, and existence of an
individual. Appropriately, many fail this exercise until much later in their
adulthood. Imagine then the tension upon sinews of the mind to create an
objective for society; a task that many
will not understand , in isolated thought, until it is too irrelevant an
excursion – one that the body does not allow of the mind’s will.
In this gap come the lubricant ideologies and philosophies like
religion, political doctrine, economics, etc. These lubricants, as the purpose of
lubricants go, allow the inertia of the insular mind to slide into a new state
of enlightenment and alignment; alignment of the being with the environment and
the larger collective.
Centuries have shown us that religion is, for all intents
and purposes, the Political Manifesto of a Macabre Idiocy. There is no need for
religious doctrine to follow any rule of sense and even the rules of gravity –
that which grounds us – can be abandoned. What absolute chaos then ensues,
inevitably, that this ideology takes root and defines what men and women can
and cannot do as individuals and with each other. History therefore stands
testament to the most Warped of Laws, Violent of Rule, and Illogical tenets of education
that religion then imparts. Nevertheless, it was a stage in the existential
dialectic of man. A thesis that was so cohesive that civilization itself needed
this mortar for its foundations, worth mentioning of course that, what better
way to legitimize the slavery and feudalism of medieval times that the Will of God.
The keepers of the faith in their hallowed tombs of
servitude - to that, which their senses say doesn’t exist; however, also faced
the fact that every thesis meets it anti-thesis. Christ was, in that sense, the
first political ideologue and perhaps the first Socialist of the “known” world
as well. And so it came to pass that his
dissent would cause a Govt crackdown culminating in his being nailed to a cross
– only for the reformation and eventual destruction of the religious order of
the Old Testament.
It is incumbent upon one to pause and introduce the rogue called
Political doctrine. Political doctrine as a reform to Religious Law is a
concept that is asynchronous and not contiguous in succession. Events like the signing
of the Magna Carta, the reduced influence of the Church against monarchy and Science
were catalysts. Nevertheless, when the heralded change did come, it was the
replacement of the God above with the one below – seemingly futile but
significant because, in monarchies, a synthesis arises from the dialectic.
Economic doctrine brings us to the modern and post-modern
era where political ideology can now, rightly, never be divorced from Politics:
where how we as a society and our progress define our Law and vision – and sometimes
our delusion.
One would be remiss at this point to not mention that the invention
of an ideology of society and the masses or collective is a tectonic shift in Political
Thinking. To that philosopher who decided that Economy cannot be divorced from
the masses, that equality is obvious, and that democratic institutions cannot
exist without the former two, there cannot be enough accolades. Marx, Engels,
Lenin, Trotsky, Bukanin and all the women of the Suffrages movement must be
lauded for their contributions.
This heralds a return to the question of Objectives of
Society in the confines of the Modern State apparatus. Today, after
successfully challenging the rule of the Capitalist machine for over 70 years,
the world has regressed back into one where Liberalist economics rules supreme,
but now called Neoliberalism. This economic model is Libertarian ideology in
many ways until it twists the State to enforcing a, “Socialism of the Rich” But
what is the point of an Economic Model that just remodels an old one. Thus we
enter the realm of the Orwellian propaganda machine enforcing that which Marx
warned us about. “Greed is Good,” “Yolo” and all such that has translated the
objective of the State to a Silicon Valley startup. This is dangerous as
society is not a business. The Objective of the State cannot be the profit
motive. Progress cannot be defined in terms of revenue.
If one had to play the Devil’s advocate, the West follows
this model; no matter how much it fails, it manages to economically spike every
now and then to prove that Neoliberalism is a feasible model. But even these
states only dared this venture after building their societies to such a level
as to avoid Future Shocks. The West has built a society that will automatically
revert back to a Socialist model because they are aware that it exists and
works.
But if the reader is wondering, what about a permanent
Socialist model instead? There can be no such thing, for the progress to
Communism is incumbent up on the Politbureaus of the Collectives. Communism is
that state where there is no State and we live in a Utopia. A jarring concept to many but will be explained
in a modern context. However, another answer to the question can be found in
the rhetorical question: “What if the Objective of the State was only to
advance, improve, and maintain Society?”
