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| Display title | The Myth of the Default Society |
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| Page ID | 33301 |
| Page content language | en - English |
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| Page creator | Yogthos (talk | contribs) |
| Date of page creation | 17:26, 10 August 2026 |
| Latest editor | CriticalResist (talk | contribs) |
| Date of latest edit | 22:38, 22 September 2026 |
| Total number of edits | 6 |
| Total number of distinct authors | 2 |
| Recent number of edits (within past 90 days) | 6 |
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Page title: (title)This attribute controls the content of the <title> element. | "The Myth of the Default Society", by Yogthos - ProleWiki Essay |
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Article description: (description)This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | You look at a picture of a busy street in a strange country, and your glance travels from person to person. It notices their dress, the surrounding architecture, the poses they assume. And you might ask yourself if you could live in this place. This is a natural, basic reflex we all have. Each of us has conceived some particular kind of life as worthy of desire, and this conception has been moulded by the customs and traditions of our youth. We take our individual conceptions and transfer them upon those who live by other standards and have different ideals from our own. We imagine that they must be unhappy because they lack the comforts and conveniences which we have come to regard as necessities, or that they cannot be free because their daily life is not governed by the same social understandings and traditions as where we happen to live. But in this moment of judgment, few people are reflective. They do not turn the question back upon themselves and inquire what is the source of their own moral and aesthetic standards. To understand what is really happening, it is necessary to strip away all ornament and look at the facts of human life without any preconceptions. Every civilization begins with the basic fact that we are animals living on a rock in space, with certain needs which are very much the same in all times and places. A certain amount of food is required for our bodies to work properly, and this is measured in terms of calories and protein. We need shelter from the weather so as not to die of cold at night. We need physical and psychological safety as we go about our lives. Above all, we need some means of production so that we can meet our fundamental needs. A society must produce food and goods that its citizens need, which, in turn, require agriculture, manufacture, mining, and all the other industries our modern world depends on. This is the material basis upon which everything else is built up. It must be secured first because nothing else can exist without it. Everything else, such as our laws, our art, and our religion, is an ornament which we have built upon this foundation. |
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Article published date: (published_time) | 2026-08-10 |