Quote from: kingstep on August 01, 2025, 07:52:03 PM

except you are looking for an ideal society where things are done the way it naturally ought to be done, then your expectation can be mate if not, there will always be a clear imperfection in what the society stands for. the rich will always rule over the poor, the politically relevant ones will always have an upper hand in the society and do things and goes cut free. the right of the poor will always be denied him while the rich and the politically relevant once commits crime and still walk freely in the society.

sadly, this is the unfortunate situation the nation finds themselves in and even when you look at the difference between developing and the already developed nations, the third world countries are made to live at the mercy of these elite nation because the society does not deal what anything that looks like an ideal world. even with regard the way nature distribute resources to different part of the world, you might find some part being more blessed over others, how much more us mortals that are naturally selfish?

the big problem is that we are mere mortals that are just trying to survive and nothing more. the laws and institution we now come to abide by where created by same us mortals based on what suites them that created it. it is just a game for the survival of the fittest, there is no point of attaching emotions to it or expecting that an ideal society will be possible.

While I suppose I can't have an ideal society in many ways, I can at least expect an improving one rather than one in decay, no? I'd rather not have society only improve in bursts upon largescale bloodbath. It seems despite several steps in a positive direction, society has actually gone backwards during the last 150 years or so after the dramatic leap forward upon which most people were granted bills of rights by their governments and then prospered mostly as a result of that, with the freeing of slaves being the crown jewel of improvement. The freedom of speech is acknowledged by most as a concept, but only fully supported by about half of people in allegedly civil places. Roughly half of people in Western "free" countries actually want you locked up in prison for insulting their favorite people, and that does happen now more than before including the USA where someone went to jail and was going to trial before their plea deal for saying "death to tyrants".

Its frustrating that hundreds of years after the widescale adoption of constitutional rights that very little respect is still given to these concepts. In an era of instant communications across the globe and across languages, there is no excuse for society to be in decay. I'd go as far to say I demand my neighbors do better. While we are mere mortals trying to survive the game of life, we have not been winning that game, and that should change. I don't want to merely survive, I want to thrive.