Triangle
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Post by Triangle on Jun 10, 2021 21:53:19 GMT
So, society itself can be considered a game?
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Post by joustos on Jun 11, 2021 17:02:47 GMT
So, society itself can be considered a game? By "game" we usually mean competitive interactions so that there will necessarily be winners or gainers and losers. So, any given society can be a game insofar as it has or allows for such interactions. On the other hand, in order for a society [congregation/alliance/association of people] to exist at all, or to persist, it must have cooperative interactions or what has been called "eusociality" -- to begin with, the reproduction and nursing of children; cooperative division of labor; etc., etc. // The distinction between eu-sociality and caco-sociality is man-made (made by societies themselves, rather than by nature) and reaches a high point when a republic is established, that is, when a society frees itself from a domineering/lording agent and vows to preserve collective and personal freedom. (Henceforth, if a citizen lords over another -- as by murdering, raping, stealing, etc.-- he is adjudicated a criminal and is duly ousted from society. Freedom is the basis of Roman or republican jurisprudence, or, we may say, political eusociality. Freedom is the highest social good.) |
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Post by thesageofmainstreet on Jun 11, 2021 18:37:12 GMT
So, society itself can be considered a game? By "game" we usually mean competitive interactions so that there will necessarily be winners or gainers and losers. So, any given society can be a game insofar as it has or allows for such interactions. On the other hand, in order for a society [congregation/alliance/association of people] to exist at all, or to persist, it must have cooperative interactions or what has been called "eusociality" -- to begin with, the reproduction and nursing of children; cooperative division of labor; etc., etc. // The distinction between eu-sociality and caco-sociality is man-made (made by societies themselves, rather than by nature) and reaches a high point when a republic is established, that is, when a society frees itself from a domineering/lording agent and vows to preserve collective and personal freedom. (Henceforth, if a citizen lords over another -- as by murdering, raping, stealing, etc.-- he is adjudicated a criminal and is duly ousted from society. Freedom is the basis of Roman or republican jurisprudence, or, we may say, political eusociality. Freedom is the highest social good.)All Republics Go Bananas
A republic merely replaces one-man tyranny with tyranny by a totalitarian clique with a false diversity. The people are forced to be sheepish, so it is not a eusociality; it is a ewesociality. Freedom will only come when the sheep somehow turn into rams. |
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Post by joustos on Jun 11, 2021 20:13:35 GMT
Ideally speaking, a republic [not a democracy] is essentially anarchic [without a ruler or lord]' The laws are made by jurisprudents in the courts; a senate [the property owners] is the manager of public affairs or works. I know, corruption seems to be inevitable in any kind of government.
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