Once again -- to the issue of society's health and well being. Most conceptualisations about health draw on principles of balance. The idea of homeostatis, equilibrium, the right amount of everything is fundamental to heath and well being right down to the level of our biology.
At the level of society's functioning as a whole, however, there seems to be much more of a toleration for open wounds, radical dysfunction, and ongoing persecution of elements of the body.
Consider gender relations and how they are perpetuated.
Any ideology that takes as its principle, "We'd better stomp down women, or they will get the upper hand and stomp us (men) down," is a blueprint for extreme social pathology.
The body politic as well as the actual body desires homeostasis -- its balance.
At the level of society's functioning as a whole, however, there seems to be much more of a toleration for open wounds, radical dysfunction, and ongoing persecution of elements of the body.
Consider gender relations and how they are perpetuated.
Any ideology that takes as its principle, "We'd better stomp down women, or they will get the upper hand and stomp us (men) down," is a blueprint for extreme social pathology.
The body politic as well as the actual body desires homeostasis -- its balance.
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