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>in@ political shit-flinging contest
What do you mean merely a concept or merely a construct? It is of course a construct as in, it has no empirical or ontic dimension (you can't "touch" or "prove" society), but is a concept that affects reality, that manifests itself in reality. Not merely a concept as if you could just claim it's pointless, vain or "fake".
It is a burgeois concept and, most of the time, a hypocritical concept (for example, "we are better because we are a civilized society and we don't do those ugly things our barbaric neighbors do, by Jove!". Beyond all hypocrisy, society means perfecting the gorgeous process by which canis canem edit:
>Circa 4000 years ago, I would literally eat my neighbor because I was a cannibal
>In Rome times, instead of eating him, I will enslave him
>In modern times, instead of calling him "slave", I give him a job and control him via media to buy the next Justin Bieber garbage.
See? As society "evolves", as we become "socialized", the way I "eat" my neighbor is more complete, more complex, more cperfect, more fatal and more profitable.
Here is my crazy view straight outta Nietzsche:
Time and time again the world has proven to be canis canem edit, the strong controls the weak: and it is beautiful and good that the world is so, that the strong can sit above the weak and even struggle amongst themselves, and that the suffering this implies for the weak means nothing if he can't make a stand for him or herself: this is the Law of Nature, that right is only given by sthrengt. So when the weak revolts against its oppressors and makes them suffer, this too is beautiful because strenght is beautiful.
We have been taught to think otherwise thanks to christianity: the cult of suffering (regardless of religious/mistical views), and we can see the epytome of this logic of "weak is good" in filthy SJWs (see "muh oppression")