The key concept in Human society is the correct connection between people
Question from the Internet:
“What are the key concepts and theories in culture, society, and politics you find very useful in analyzing societal problems?”
The most important concept is Human interconnections, how people relate to each other. We are mostly unaware but society, Humanity is a single, living organism.
And as in any living organism life - circulation, communication - depends on the mutual connection between the parts, elements. In our case this means the people who comprise that society, or Humanity.
Most ancient wisdom, teaching describes this oneness, total integration, the necessity of mutual cooperation between Humans and through the whole Universe.
Probably the best known such ancient principle is “love your neighbor as yourself”, describing how we need to implement Nature’s most fundamental principle that keeps the crucial balance and homeostasis (without which life is impossible) in Human society.
Still when it comes to actual, practical implementation we are incapable of following such concepts.
Our inherently egocentric, individualistic, exploitative nature prevents the necessary Human interconnections, cooperation as we are all programmed to serve outsiders at all cost, mostly at the expense of others.
This is why we fail in building peaceful, equal, sustainable societies and stumble through recurring, vicious historic cycles.
So we need to learn, understand this and then we need to proactively adjust our present - incompatible - nature, attitude towards the ideal one, to be able to actually implement the oneness, mutually we have been talking, writing about for millennia.
For this we need a very special, purposeful and highly practical educational method, as adjusting, upgrading our instinctive behavior, program is not an easy task to say the least!