History shows that societies fall apart far more often than they survive and endure.
A deep, common core of fundamental shared beliefs is a pre-requisite to any lasting, coherent society.
The Poprimus model defines this common core as the Identity, Attitude and Conduct (IAC) that together make up the glue that brings together and binds together society.
Common IAC must underpin agreed core values and principles. Values and principles are essential to the definition of an open, honest and fair formal constitution. The constitution, together with the implementation of an elected executive government based upon commercial / leadership experience and competence rather than political association, will enable good government focused upon service to, rather than control of, the people and the nation.
It’s not rocket science but it is both revolutionary and unwelcome to those currently occupying the corridors of power in Parliament and the Public Services sector.
Society itself is the all embracing framework covering the human and organisational elements that bring sustainable life and vitality to a complex organism. The Glue Diagram accompanying this post provides a (deliberatley) simplistic overview of the whole and the relationships involved. Whilst those with vested interests might argue that society is much more complex than portrayed here that is only the case when people decide to try and make it so.
Is essence societies comprise four key elements :
Citizens are (either as individuals or organisations comprising citizens) those who collectively comprise the population of society and it’s major resource.
- Citizens are the crucial, beating heart of any society. They should always to be encouraged to develop and advance themselves,and supported throughout life in doing so. Fairness, and equality, most importantly of opportunity, are the base ingredients that must be given to all citizens in society regardless of birth and circumstances to ensure the bonding agents of identity, attitude and conduct are to stick, and hold firm.
- if should be the perceived rights or interests of any individual or group , cannot be allowed to threaten or harm the greater, collective interests of the broader society as a whole. That way leads to chaos and the potential disintegration of society, a very clear and present danger (even if not yet realised by the ruling classes) in all western societies today.
- Citizens’ rights must be earned rather than bestowed, nothing comes free. More importantly yet citizens must first and formost recognise, and fulfil, their responsibilities to others and to the broader society before expecting others to address their perceived needs / rights.
Enterprises are the means by which the capital necessary is generated to sustain and develop society.
- Only those with severe pshychological / emotional problems and a fundamental lack of economic education can really believe that money grows on trees or is left overnight by the tooth fairy. Despite all of the pitfalls, and the undoubted need for far greater controls on illegal activity than those at place in modern Britain, capitalism is the only proven system of wealth generation. Capiltalism, entrepreneurship and the ethos of self improvement and development that both engender must be embraced, nurtured and actively promoted to all from a very early age.
Government has the fundamental responsibility ,to the citizens of it’s society, of providing defence, security, and control from threats both internal and external. However essential competing demands may appear they must always be secondary to, and never allowed to conflict with, that primary responsibility.
Yet despite the sermonising and protestation from the virtuous political “elites” in Western liberal democracies the real world evidence strongly emerging is that ‘Diversity, Equality and Inclusion” is more likely to diminish, and potentially destroy, cohesion and harmony within a modern, mixed society.
All societies are a complex mix of competing, often conflicting, elements and associated variable priorities.
