Social Imaginary (extra blog)

“Mutual respect and mutual service of the individuals who make up society” (12) If this is the idea of the modern moral order, I haven’t seen it. What I see are traces of a society that lives on hierarchy. I see traces of a society that will do anything for themselves, leaving the weaker behind, living their lives through the, “survival of the fittest,” motto that does not include everyone because it simply cannot. Our own selfishness devours the modern order and we live the lives people tell us to live because we feel safer not having to worry about the direction the general order of things goes. We elect people thinking that we’re living through, “The Law of The People.” When in reality we are living in the age of hierarchy, only thing is, we’re not really part of the hierarchy. We sit back and watch the rich get richer while the poor get poorer because we buy into the hype of the American Dream and allow the real people in power do whatever it is they want. Only thing is now, the American Dream, has become only a dream. With this new recession it seems as if that dream has been bumped down from dream to fantasy. While we continue to allow this to happen, what will really happen is this, that new moral order, the one in which, “The ideal social order is one in which our purposes mesh, and each in furthering himself helps others.” (13) Will remain in the back of people’s minds and the future will stay really bleak because until we can see a world where everyone can co-exist without worrying about someone trying to take them socially down. The Social Imaginary, will continue being imaginary.


*this blog was intended for the response to the social imaginary WEBCT post, it can also be found on WEBCT.