What governance do we need in society?
Question from the Internet:
“What would be the ideal level of governance for society? Why?”
It is not the level of governance but the type of governance that is the problem.
Basically, since human beings started to form societies, they are always built by and for our inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric and exploitative nature.
Thus it is always the most selfish, most egoistic and most exploitative people who get to the peak of the pyramid system of human society, manipulating, exploiting and ruling over the less selfish and less exploitative masses.
This has always been the pattern of human society regardless of the ideology, governing or social system used.
And this kind of human society has now exhausted itself and is heading for a total collapse.
We need to completely rebuild how we relate to each other and on what foundations we build human societies. We have to abandon our arbitrary, misguided and unfounded ideologies, philosophies and systems and choose Nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated template instead.
Whether we want to acknowledge this or not, whether we are conscious about it or not, in effect, we are all individual cells of the same, closed, living organism. And in this living organism, we all have 100% mutual responsibility towards each other.
So from now on, we can’t have societies where the masses simply forfeit their responsibilities and accept the tyranny of a small minority because it is more comfortable, even if that minority openly manipulates and exploits them in return. All of us have to feel and implement our mutual responsibility towards each other.
On the other hand, no minority or individuals have the right to manipulate and exploit the majority since if they accept leadership, they have to become totally selfless and unconditional public servants in the full meaning of the concept. The higher one is in humanity’s pyramid, the greater one’s responsibility towards everybody else.
Thus we all have a lot to learn and implement, and we do not have much time. If we ignore what Nature’s laws demand from us if we ignore the direction of Natural evolution and our own role in the system, increasing and increasingly intolerable suffering will force us to rethink and accept the inevitable.