Monday, May 6, 2013

The Perfect Society

Something that I was thinking about today.
What is the perfect society? Many people have tried to create one throughout the history of the world. Marx tried to create the perfect society by spreading the idea of communism so that everybody would be equal. Hitler tried by creating the Aryan race, so that everybody would be the same, or equal.
So far, neither of these ideas have worked. They sound good though, right? Take Marx's idea of communism for example.
Everybody contributes to society what they can, and in return they receive what they need to survive. There would be no poverty. No beggars on the street. Everybody would have a home, everybody would have enough food.
So, why does a society that sounds so good fail? It is because people are naturally selfish. People do not just want to give what they earned to other people. This is reasonable. People have a right to keep what they earn. But what about the idea of the Aryan race?
In the ideal Aryan race everyone may not necessarily have equal possessions, but they will all have basically the same physical features. This race of people is physically superior to other groups of people. There would be no physical deformities. There would be no disease. Everybody would be equal in a physical sense.
The problem with this idea is that it is almost impossible to have a society with all the same physical traits and capabilities. Just like animals are different sizes and colors, so are people. This can't be changed.
So why, if being equal has never worked for a society, do people insist that the perfect society is an equal society?
I don't know exactly how to answer that question. Although it does seem to me that those who push for equal things are lazy people who want other people to pay for their living. This includes most people because people are naturally lazy.
After pondering over this for a while, I came to a conclusion. We need to stop looking for the perfect society and realize that God gave us one to start with. He gave us disabled people to teach patience and empathy. He gave us the ability to age to humble us as we became older. He gave us great athletes and entrepreneurs to show us what we have the potential to be. He gave us freedom so that we could make what we wish of ourselves great or small it's our choice. He gave us poor and homeless people to teach us about charity and kindness. And finally, he gave us normal people to show us that we don't have to be a great athlete or high up in a large corporation. We are allowed to just be ourselves. To work if we please, and to be lazy if we don't particularly care if we become anything great. Look what mankind has done with this perfect society that God has given them. We now have planes that are being tested at 5 times the speed of sound. We have buildings taller than the tallest trees on Earth. Vaccinations capable of saving entire populations of people from death by a plague. We have houses that are heated and cooled with almost no effort from the owners of the home. We have these things that we call computers and televisions that broadcast ideas and stories through a screen that sometimes looks so real that a person may feel as if they could just jump into it.
On the flipside, when people have tried to push against this perfect society that God has set up for the human race, there are dire consequences. Consequences such as the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The holocaust in Europe and elsewhere in the world. And any other war or conflict that has ever existed is because someone decided that God's idea wasn't for them and tried something else. Let me tell it to you straight folks who may think otherwise. You are not smarter than God. He's got the right idea, and if the world would follow it, the world would be a much better place.
We've already got the blueprints for a perfect society. Why don't we simply follow them for a change?
Now, this is not supposed to be a forceful post. Neither is it supposed to be sad or angry. Simply something to think about. :)

1 comment :

  1. You know what. I think we are already striving for a perfect society. To me perfect means everyone helps one another. When we all love each other equally. Then we will be perfect.

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