↩ Homepage of the site 'What to do with your life?' How can we stop the slow degradation of the social fabric, which leads to civil war?The four main causes of the degradation of the social fabric are:
The excessive increase in inequalities corresponds to an excessive concentration of the means of production. This concentration is made possible by the excessive size of companies (formerly, in a mainly agricultural society, by the excessive size of estates). The proliferation of jobs that are not directly useful corresponds to the Parkinson's law not taken into account, therefore not fought, which leads to an increase in social tensions through the growing pressure of those not directly productive on the productive. There loss of confidence in the elites results from the low quality of their decisions in terms of rigor of reasoning and of conformity to the general interest. The rise of 'to each their own truth' is a greater fragmentation of beliefs linked to the arrival of weakly regulated social networks which amplifies the work of undermining started by opinion journals. Historically, the stability of the social fabric was not achieved by a struggle against beliefs, but by the attempt to impose one, often through religion. However, such a solution is no longer applicable since the second revolution of humanity, namely the technological revolution. Indeed, the modern scientific method which caused it also tends to discredit any belief constructed for political purposes. To restore the social fabric, it is necessary:
The book From capital to reason describes a social organization that covers these four points:
CommentIn terms 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 (proliferation of jobs not directly useful) to excessive hierarchical pressure, and the other two ( loss of confidence in elites and rise in power of 'to each their own truth') correspond to the feeling of lack of confidence. Go deeperRegarding the proliferation of jobs that are not directly useful: Concerning the loss of confidence in the elites: Concerning the notion of beliefs: And finally, regarding the proposed solution:
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