When we are little children, we have a tendency to want to have our own way, our own toys, and our own dominion, that we alone, are masters of. In consideration that children, are children, that is to be pretty much expected. But there comes that time when we have to put away childish things and enter into the adult world. This thus indicates that those that aren’t able to graduate into becoming responsible, self-sufficient, and mature adults are going to be problematic when it comes time to develop good and healthy societies, because those that think and do wrong things, aren’t then going to do their fair part to help make for a good society.
No human being is an island, and no society can be made up of exclusively individuals that do not believe that they have an obligation to get along with others – for a nation without a purpose, a nation without principles, and a nation without a good reason for its legitimate existence, will not successfully stand the test of time. That is why, each one of us, needs to contribute to the making of a good civil society, based upon the principles of fair play, justice, equality of opportunity, and meritocracy. This thus necessitates that we have to make it our point, to cooperate with one another, so that we can together, build our societal edifice upon a solid foundation, rather than to spend inordinate amounts of times in all sorts of rancor, divisiveness, and spiteful behavior.
None of the above means that we should live our lives in abject obeisance to the state, for each of us is born free, with free will, and our own thinking mind – so gifted to us, so that we can through our own volition recognize the superiority of joining together into one body politic. Additionally, each one of us, is absolutely fallible, despite what we might wish to believe, contrariwise, that some of us, somehow, become infallible, over some extended period of time and study. That is why it is so important for each one of us, to recognize that the reasonable opinions and viewpoints of others, should often be listened to and considered – for how else then are we able to adjust our own opinions and viewpoints, if we are forever fixed in such, as if our mind is permanently aligned to a broken clock.
As always, it is easy to be the critic, it is easy to teardown, to destroy, and to belittle someone else or even a government for its faults. To those that are especially adept at such, no credit should be accorded, for destruction without a corresponding plan of improvement to thus enact instead, is wrong-headed. Rather, for civilizations to advance, for society to get better, we need to put our heads together, and to make collective success be the focus of what we are so trying to achieve. That is to say, people and governments lose their direction, when then have essentially lost the purpose for their being in the first place. The point of civilization, is to gather together, for the purpose of improving the lot of the people that make up that civilization, best accomplished by having a point of discussion, leading to a plan of action, and then the implementation of such a plan for the greater good of that civilization through the willing cooperation of its people.