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How to stop the slow degradation of the social fabric, which leads to civil war?

The four main causes of the deterioration of the social fabric are:

The excessive increase in inequalities corresponds to an excessive concentration of the means of production.

The proliferation of jobs that are not directly useful corresponds to Parkinson's law, which is not taken into account, and therefore not combated, which leads to an increase in social tensions through the growing pressure of the non-directly productive on the productive.

The loss of confidence in the elites results from the low quality of their decisions in terms of rigor of reasoning and conformity to the general interest.

The rise of 'everyone to his own truth' is a greater fragmentation of beliefs linked to the arrival of weakly regulated social networks which amplifies the undermining work begun by opinion journals.

To restore the social fabric, it is necessary to:

The book From capital to reason describes a social organization that covers these four points:

Comment

At the level of the four causes mentioned for the progressive deterioration of the social fabric, the first (excessive increase in inequalities) corresponds to the feeling of injustice, the second to excessive hierarchical pressure, and the other two (loss of confidence in the elites and rise The loss of confidence in the elites corresponds to the loss of objective confidence, linked to their unsatisfactory way of functioning, and the rise in power of 'everyone to his own truth' corresponds to the loss of subjective confidence, linked to the rise in beliefs to the detriment

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Refer to the question 'What does Parkinson's Law tell us?'

To go further on the notion of beliefs, refer to the question 'Why is all belief dangerous?'.