class Society{private: YOU()}

I had an interesting conversation the other day; you know the kind that starts out about video games then takes an abrupt turn to philosophy. these are my favorite kinds of discussions, because it allows me to really be myself for a change, no longer hiding behind my daily mask. Me and my friend began to talk about the degradadtion of values in sosiety. in order to really understand however you need know where i (and my friend also) are coming from, the best and simplest way to really explain it is with a theoretical Hitler question (&B4 godwin’s law) the question is as follows: If Hitler had never been born, would some other individual done the same or a similar thing at the time?

there of course many answers to this question (and you thought there was only 2) but coming from a sociological standpoint the answer has to be YES. someone else would have done it because it was what was necessary in order for the world to move on, this doesn’t mean the time frame would be the same, hell it could have taken another 50-100 years but it WOULD HAVE STILL HAPPENED. (oh and if you are completely oblivious as to what ‘IT’ is look up “holocaust”, i assume that you aren’t like 10…).

now if you assume that this is fact then one must make the claim that the individual is in no respect part of the sosiety, or rather, they are independant of each other. meaning that if a ‘hitler’ is needed a ‘hitler’ will be made. this kind of thinking may seem strange, as each person would tell you that they have control of their actions and that they don’t follow orders from The Man, it is however upon observation a fact that this kind of society consiousness exisits, and operates free of individual form.

so what does this all mean. simply that we are a function of society. we operate within the rule set we are raised with and follow the parameters we are given. if we feel that we aren’t following it think again. you are simply following some parameter that told you to diverge, divergence from the norm is important to the norm as well. Society is dictating that it is good to lose your morals, to drink and have free sex, not to worry about consequnces. what can YOU do to stop this slippery slope? nothing, as we have already established, sosiety will operate independant of the individual, even if there are alot of them, they don’t matter until they begin to dictate the ruleset. i believe that this will happen, sooner than we would expect. soon sosiety will either destroy it self or almost destroy itself in its search of moral decay, and it will be those individuals who realize the path that was inplace and modifyed their params to be pro-moral, that will then have the chance to change the world.

will you be one of them?

bye-q

~ by Robopanda333 on April 26, 2008.