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Greetings.
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We are all about amusements here at the desk.

In other news, chili is apparently laced with botuli.

Society doesn't demand perfection... and in fact its expectation for occassional high performance is almost balanced with moderate approaches to new demands/pressures/ etc. The theory of Society as organism suggests that hyper-parasitism and super-parasitism may be encouraged in certain subpopulations as a means of atrophying exceptionally dynamic regions of research, development, etc. that might be characterized as "challenging" to the system. Higher education is just one large venue ripe for this, and non-productive parasitism is readily viewable on every level, and oftentimes every department.
The view of Society as an organism in its own right, with a dynamic population of human "cells" seems critical to me as a means of explaining the otherwise inexplicable behavior witnessed.
Gun control, perceptions of adequate civic-level peacekeeping efforts, and the development of "normalizing" global partnerships (like the WHO and League of Nations) are efforts on the part of society to set a mild, non-reform agenda and substrate to ensure its own survival. Just like ourselves, Society can afford to lose a few skin cells in any given process.
The pressures facing Society are only slightly askew from our own. Challenges for survival, food, growth, pressure to self-analyze are all features we can intimately (selfishly?) relate to. Quite rightly, Society fears individual potencies. Society can be subject to broad, infective ideas, sickness, revolutions, natural disasters. Just like ourselves, Society pursues an agenda where it won't have to do very much to ensure its own survival.
- Klypus