Faith & Society

Growing idea .. just a note

What is faith?

The Universe is composed from what is and what isn't. In logic if we have some x then Ax | x V -x . If B is a closed boundary region in space then the sum of those points and the sum of those point "outside" the region is everything.

In this way those things within a closed region are the "known." The rest of the space is the faith.

In the case of an organism the organism's system is the known. The environment is the faith.

Now society is a collection of individuals. If an individual has a space "I" then we can say that the society is the same space as the sum of "I", here the square box with only 4 individuals drawn.

With extreme liberalism there is then the view that Society is the same as I since it is made from nothing but I. However this is a mistake.

Take a particular individual A (An individual). The Society is actually not like A at all but actually the negation of A and is unique to this A. Each individual has a different environment and society. Thus when an individual thinks about society that need the faith in an entity that is not themselves. For Individual A the Society looks like the black region in this image, which is nothing like the region A. This is far from the Libertarian view of society as just a collection of entities like oneself.

We see this in many features of society like language, law and peace. These are only possible when an individual realises they are placed in a unique relationship with society that requires faith. They need faith that other people will be peaceful, that they understand what is said. Once these faiths are lost then the society fails.

Speaking to someone from a war zone they said that when war breaks out it is just a madness that runs through the society that makes previous friends take up weapons and fight each other. Once we lose faith in the non-individual then we realise how much the individual depends upon the world outside them self which provides such intangible things as peace and happiness.

Common failings are belief that you can buy peace like have a Police Force or Security. When everyone had their own personal security you no longer have a society.