How We Structured Our Society

Regarding the deluge of reports concerning the acceleration of climate change, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, and other forms of environmental collapse, Nick Young offers his comments at left.

But did we have a choice when it came to organizing our society? Did we have a real, viable option not to put money and power at the center of human civilization? I don’t recall being asked for my input.

It’s true that we’ve had an occasional Marcus Arelius, i.e., a ruler of intelligence and virtue.  But 99+% of history is composed of brutality, greed, and the lust for complete domination over the common people.

With American democracy tottering on the brink of destruction and buildup of military might, we have our hands full if we are to have an organized society here by the end of the century.