Friday, May 18, 2012

Types of Societies




An example of the first kind is India of Pre-Partition days, when the ideal of the subjects was Indian Nationalism and the Ideal of the rulers was British Imperialism, both wrong ideals. Although the British have left the country, real freedom will not come to the peoples of India so long as they do not base their constitution on the Right Ideal. Examples of the second type are Russia, France, Turkey and many other so-called "free" countries of this world. The fifth type is the objective of evolution. The fourth type is the earlier stage of the fifth type. The third type will exist side by side with the fifth type for some time and ultimately disappear enabling the fifth type to dominate. The fourth type of society may have one of the two opposite results for the individual either, either real freedom or real slavery are terms incompatible with each other. A group of self-consciousness men living under the government of a wrong ideal must either accept slavery or must continue to make efforts to get independence, in which case they must ultimately succeed. Self conscious men, as long as they remain self conscious, have their own law to follow and their own ruler to obey, and that ruler is the Right Ideal.