Harmonic Perfection

An ideal civilization his hard to come by, let alone an ideal society that can achieve harmony while existing with its differences. So when you try and create your own social model you find that there is no concrete blueprint for such a society because there has never been one.

With the Greeks it was rivalry, with the Persians it was oppression, the Romans dawned a new era with politics but ultimately fell by it as well, even the Aztecs managed a vast empire only to succumb to spiritual misinterpretations and the wave of infection brought on by the Spaniards. It just seems as if there is always something, one determining factor that dissolves the rest of a society’s accomplishments.

Our civilization, the U.S, is only 216 years old and by global standards it is still one of the youngest major nations in history. However its rise to power and its domestic breakthroughs have been admiring and strategic. We currently sit as one of if not the strongest economy in the world and we have soldiered through a democratic development that has shaped our global reputation. We have both genders voting, and eliminated slavery, we have all races currently voting, and now we are preparing for another breakthrough the first woman and African-American candidate for presidency. Yes it seems our social model developed rather quickly by global standards but also solidly.

We have been called the “melting pot” of the world for our diversity in races. We each bring the best of our backgrounds to the U.S. and unfortunately sometimes our worst, but the point is we live amongst one another. For the most part we are able to set aside out differences and interact with one another, work together, eat together, play together, even breed together creating newer generations. We have even learned to make money together, but that’s where it kicks in, our economy, our focal point is our biggest weakness.

For all intents and purposes the U.S. is the New York City of the world; it exists for the purpose of business. Epic skyscrapers line themselves across the city giving way to new and more lucrative money making processes. In its early development migrants flocked to American in hopes of striking it rich whether by the California gold rush, or the Oil boom, or even for the free land in exchange for cultivation.

My point is this, the U.S. could easily be considered my model for a harmonic society but it is not, because it isn’t a harmonic society. Yes we are able to live amongst one another and exist peacefully, (our last civil war was roughly 142 years ago), but I think we’ve become a financially socialized class. I mean everyday you can hear some discussion about how the gap between the rich and the poor keeps widening. Yet you see no initiative by those able to help to close that gap, and the simple truth is that we are identified as rich or poor, even more rarely middle-class.

Our history has developed in a mercantile state and it reflects that more than ever in social institutions, our celebrities make millions in movies, our athletes sign 5 year contracts worth 160 million, and even our public officials are able to create private companies that they can then sign government contracts with further progressing their capitalist endeavors. Yes now more than ever we can see our civilization of mercenaries.

So even this social model that I am a part of fails to assist my understanding of what a harmonic society should be, instead it just adds itself to the long history what a society should never be.