08-01-2015, 06:40 PM
(07-31-2015, 09:25 AM)Karl Wrote: The article wasn't stating that violence was the ideal, just that it is the final means of control or "order" in human society. As much as people may dislike it everything we enjoy in modern society is built on violence or the threat of violence in one way or another.
Some aspects of society, yes. But other aspects were built on cooperation and peace. For example, whenever I'm stuck in traffic I sometimes find myself wondering about who built the road or the bridge, and marveling at the cooperation that must have gone into such a huge project. I can think of many examples of aspects of society that were created from peaceful cooperation.
Even if society was held together by violence, we are, presumably, building a 4D society, are we not? So why should we be limited to what worked for primitive cavemen?