Is a smooth society approaching | Official GITS Global Site []
Why the “Smooth Society” has not been achieved
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- identity issue
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Humans have the desire to belong to something greater than themselves and to unite with something greater than themselves. They feel raison d’être and meaning in life, not necessarily that they are happier when they can control multiple affiliations.
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[Survival and Security
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In order to protect the lives of citizens, we must, for the time being, maintain the existing nation-state with its legal monopoly on violence.
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- “The free exchange of ideas gradually weeds out false ideas.” Is this hypothesis correct?
- →I see possibilities that are not correct, such as radicalization on social networking sites.
Around 2010, British economist Paul Collier argued that in the chaos of African societies, the fate of nations depended on whether they were going to do democracy first or security first.
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