Here's something for everyone with free will and the incentive to use it. Can we break the bonds of society? By this I ask if we can end stereotypes and biases and all those other trivial nuisances. Can we let people be themselves again and not let them care what others think? Can we make self-conscious mean you know what you look like, and not care how? These are the questions of the revolution. How such an event take place powerful, yet not be seen as evil?
Individuals revolution
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Sure. If every individual moved towards a goal it'd be achieved. Society is created by individuals, but then again individuals are influenced by society.
This comes to mind:
Gandhi?s Paradox: nothing that we do as individuals matters, but that it?s vitally important to do it anyway.
Even if it seems like trying to cause change with just your actions is pointless, it's really the only way to change society.
This comes to mind:
Gandhi?s Paradox: nothing that we do as individuals matters, but that it?s vitally important to do it anyway.
Even if it seems like trying to cause change with just your actions is pointless, it's really the only way to change society.
We never were free of those things. We've always been a tribe based species and being part of a co-operative group means to a certain extent conforming and making yourself useful. We are not meant to be wholly individual (why do you think people go mad without access to human contact?)
From my experience, most people who revolt from society do so simply to revolt from society.
Pretty piss poor reason, if you ask me.
Pretty piss poor reason, if you ask me.
I mostly agree with you up to the point that it interupts daily life for me. If we didn't think in some way without individualism, we couldn't get shit done just because none of us would have common goals. As it is, society works fairly fine like that.
Also, putting "Revolution" onto the title leaves us with the image of a huge mass of people doing something, not individually.
Also, putting "Revolution" onto the title leaves us with the image of a huge mass of people doing something, not individually.
If all of society revolted, then it's not really an individual's revolution. It's a revolution of society against the current social norms. These norms are set up or followed by society (basically everyone who is involved in society) so that order is enforced. Society functions as a means to communicate and collaborate with other people to ensure survival and prosperity. If you want to demolish social norms, you're basically destroying the common language and order that holds society together. Society no longer functions as it is but instead changes into a loosely functional group of individuals at best. Of course, this is going to the extreme and would only happen if everyone decided to completely abandon all aspects of social norms which is essentially impossible because these norms are often engrained in us.
If you mean that people should dismiss notions of social norms in the perceptions and treatment we have of each other, then this has been done to some small degree. People are trying to strive toward this, by treating each other fairly and trying not to judge each other. The difficulty in this is that if everyone did whatever they want without fear of being judged, then society will be at least a little bit more chaotic and communcation among different people would be just that much more difficult.
You are essentially asking for a Utopian society. I don't see it coming.
If you mean that people should dismiss notions of social norms in the perceptions and treatment we have of each other, then this has been done to some small degree. People are trying to strive toward this, by treating each other fairly and trying not to judge each other. The difficulty in this is that if everyone did whatever they want without fear of being judged, then society will be at least a little bit more chaotic and communcation among different people would be just that much more difficult.
You are essentially asking for a Utopian society. I don't see it coming.
Yes, but what if our wants and desires are shaped by the society itself? Then we would be using our free will and incentive to that societies benefit. I think that might be a sort of paradox.
Anyway, there are plenty of examples of individuals whom go off and do their own thing contrary to what society expects of them. Often these people are socially ostracised, and in most cases they are idiots. But then there are a few genius'.
At any rate, to differing degrees individuals diverge from societal expectations anyway- this is what gives us character as individuals. Some divergence from society is a good thing, otherwise we would all be joe normal.
Anyway, there are plenty of examples of individuals whom go off and do their own thing contrary to what society expects of them. Often these people are socially ostracised, and in most cases they are idiots. But then there are a few genius'.
At any rate, to differing degrees individuals diverge from societal expectations anyway- this is what gives us character as individuals. Some divergence from society is a good thing, otherwise we would all be joe normal.