I have another suggestion. Define society as a human body. The analogy is shockingly valid. A thorough understanding of the human body, such as that provided in a biologically, chemically and historically informative and entertaining way by Bill Bryson in The Body: A Guide for Occupants, will show all the checks and balances, interrelatedness and millions of roles and interests of the cells and organs that make up our bodies. There's no room for lies there. As the famous Dr. House showed us week after week, along with so many other TV doctors, you get it right or the patient dies.
I have another suggestion. Define society as a human body. The analogy is shockingly valid. A thorough understanding of the human body, such as that provided in a biologically, chemically and historically informative and entertaining way by Bill Bryson in The Body: A Guide for Occupants, will show all the checks and balances, interrelatedness and millions of roles and interests of the cells and organs that make up our bodies. There's no room for lies there. As the famous Dr. House showed us week after week, along with so many other TV doctors, you get it right or the patient dies.
Indeed, highly relevant. We are an ecosystem unto ourselves, and part of many ecosystems without. All connected, all dependent on each other.