http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/06/cost-of-damage-cost-of-repair-and-unruly-human-behaviour/ helping people break out of pigeonholes since 2003 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:15:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/06/cost-of-damage-cost-of-repair-and-unruly-human-behaviour/comment-page-1/#comment-2254 Jackie Danicki » The difference between society and the state Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:42:42 +0000 http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/06/cost-of-damage-cost-of-repair-and-unruly-human-behaviour/#comment-2254 [...] Adriana: People don’t seem to differentiate between the state and society - two separate realms that relate to the individual in fundamentally different ways. The state is political and the society, well, social. One of the features of communism (or any totalitarianism) is the explicit aim to politicise the social. In such systems, everything is political and the power is taken away from the society and individual for political purposes. Therefore, I distrust and thwart the state wherever I can. I support and strengthen society to the best of my abilities. [...] [...] Adriana: People don’t seem to differentiate between the state and society – two separate realms that relate to the individual in fundamentally different ways. The state is political and the society, well, social. One of the features of communism (or any totalitarianism) is the explicit aim to politicise the social. In such systems, everything is political and the power is taken away from the society and individual for political purposes. Therefore, I distrust and thwart the state wherever I can. I support and strengthen society to the best of my abilities. [...]

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