Scissors, paper...Rock

 

People are not society. At some point society has a life of its own, separate from our innate natural humanity, but moving alongside it. The world's confusing nature is an interplay of extremely different and fluid elements which find harmony in either violence or concurrence, much to humans' distress. Because of our simple fundamental survival systems, this environment which we are a part of ironically seems unnatural. Because we are in need of both guidelines and space, we are the least equipped of all species to accept nature, yet the most adaptable and creative thanks to our needs breeding intelligence. At some point, the solution to our anxieties, endless questions, and fear of the wide and open sky and possibility, make society a pleasant blanket of life-enhancing customs and rules, where our comfort and safety are preserved as long as we adhere to preserving the stability of all. It is a fair trade by minimum standards, and an excellent one for whom expects to gain the most benefit. 

Society is pleasant not for itself is but for the experiences it subjects individuals to. Our love for community is essentially our love for the effort we make to maintain one another's rights, and an outlet to our natural and overflowing empathy, thus a disconnect from it could easily result in the drought of the latter. Our love for community is our love for people. It is compassion finding refuge, and an open channel for feeling the current and being part of it. We are destined to find it desirable, otherwise we'd be cutting ourselves off from a rudimentary source of contentment. Thus, the core of society is an honest one, it is the centuries-worth of sharpening and refining, clash of moralities and defensiveness over curiosity, that shaped the concept into its final and deeply unsatisfying form. 

Now, ultimately, society cannot be dismantled due to the inevitable rot of humanity and the grip of consciousness, and humanity rots in society. The 'communities' culture and their great division then, now, was necessary for the well-being of the individuals, and is understandable if not commendable.