Systems of Stability

THE SYSTEM is often blamed for many failed expectations of life in our society. Just what the system is can be nebulous in and of itself. There are many institutions of civilization, and while all of them have a function to perform, a benefit to bring humanity, few of them are thought to live up to their goals, if those goals can even be remembered.

It occurs to me that every lasting institution that is introduced to humanity endures because of one common benefit it can reap: It can greater stabilize Life. Life is delicate and perishable, primarily because of its dependance on food and protection.

There are several systems which humanity has adopted to greater stabilize an assurance of life:

Law

to better assure that food, shelter, and other wealth are not subject to theft, human destructiveness, or other 'unjust' creation of scarcity.

Market

to reduce scarcity by incentivizing labor and exchange.

Religion

to foster values which inspire a service to community, or vigilance against threat of suffering or perishing.

Education

to share an understanding of the elements by which define work skills,

Lingual Communication

or indeed communication of any sort. But Lingual Communication in its ability to convey experiences of even the most abstract nature, to share models both factual and fictional, and to thus test the consequences (of premeditated deeds) upon human understanding.