WHAT IS A SUCCESSFUL SOCIETY ?
What Is A Successful Society : like clockwork . I say :"These society is successful ."Instantly,a coterie of people appears and rises to objections.ONE:"that society is not successful !Its not perfect !"TWO :"That society is not successful! No society can be !" Lets unpack these for a minute,because it will teach us something interesting . There are three ways to judge a thing .The first is the Platonic way:We compare it to an ideal .We do this with people and it poisons our relationships .We do it with societies and this is the leftist objection :no society live up to my platonic ideal,thus no society can be successful . The second way is the Hegelian way:we compare a thing to its antithesis,We do this with ourselves and it damages our sense of self worth : I am not as good as them ,they are the positive of me ,rich,pretty,handsome,famous and so on .We do it with societies ,too.This i...